Giridhar Dhakshinamoorthy

Giridhar Dhakshinamoorthy

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Senior Staff Engineer - CTO Office
Sunnyvale, California, United States

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  • Sonatus
    Senior Manager - AI Engineering
    Sonatus
    Jun 2026 - Current (4 months)
  • Sonatus
    Senior Staff AI & Advanced Technology Engineer - CTO Office
    Sonatus
    Feb 2025 - May 2026 (1 year 4 months)
  • Sonatus
    AI/ML Technical Lead - CTO Office
    Sonatus
    Jan 2024 - Feb 2025 (1 year 2 months)
    Driving innovation within the Office of the CTO. Developing advanced machine learning models and next-gen AI solutions to directly shape the future of automotive technology.
  • Sonatus
    Member of Technical Staff
    Sonatus
    Apr 2021 - Jan 2024 (2 years 10 months)
    Worked on in-vehicle embedded software at this automotive start-up.
    Have worked or working on :
    - vehicle automation
    - vehicle data collection
    - logging and tracing for in-vehicle ECUs

    all of which enables automakers to remotely monitor, manage, and innovate with their vehicles and data in real-time via our cloud counterpart without software updates/OTA.

    Everyday work deals heavily with advanced C++, Linux builds, design & architecture of different modules/sub-modules and frameworks across teams, python frameworks for automations, internal build and deployment infrastructure and communications.
  • Cisco
    Senior Software Engineer
    Cisco
    Nov 2020 - Apr 2021 (6 months)
  • Cisco
    Software Engineer
    Cisco
    Jun 2018 - Nov 2020 (2 years 6 months)
    Worked in the Insieme Business Unit which pioneers in the field of Software Defined Networking (SDN) technology.

    Affiliated with the team that develops the L3 layer architecture of a cloud-native single touch solution called - cAPIC - which is a cloud based architecture for spawning and managing software routers and cloud resources across Cloud providers (AWS/ Azure).

    Our project received Pioneer Award-2020 which is the highest engineering award conferred by Cisco for the impact we drive within Cisco and our clients.

    During my time here, I worked on Performance Analysis of the entire system for Go lang and C++ to detect performance bottlenecks due to code latencies, memory leaks, etc.

    As part of t
  • Motiv Inc
    Data Science Co-Op
    Motiv Inc
    Jan 2018 - Apr 2018 (4 months)
    Motiv Inc. is a breakthrough wearable technology company that designed and developed in-house a Smart Ring that tracks physiological activities - exercise, sleep, heart rate etc.

    During my time at Motiv I performed demographic metric analysis over the data collected to study patterns in heart rates, sleep cycles, physical activities among the population.

    Some of the interesting trends that we observed where the cyclic nature of RHR that peaks over the weekends (ofcourse a reflection of the TGIF lifestyle). Also sleep times that were directly congruent to the work culture of areas - for example, the difference in the daily sleep routine of an working adult in the east coast vs west coast.
  • Cisco
    Software Engineering Intern
    Cisco
    May 2017 - Aug 2017 (4 months)
    • Worked with the Insieme group to develop an actionable analytics dashboard on network traffic statistics and a pattern inference system for network resource consumption.
    • Data was stored and retrieved using a time series database (InfluxDB) and ML models were developed in Python sckit-learn and was launched as a service in Kubernetes, exposed to Cisco's internal services using RESTful API.
  • University of Southern California
    Computational Neuroscience Research Associate
    University of Southern California
    Oct 2016 - Dec 2017 (1 year 3 months)
    • Performed mathematical feature engineering and statistical data analysis on EEG, EMG and experiment specific medical data using MATLAB, R-programming and Python
    • Developed drivers and firmware for National Instruments DAQs, FPGAs, 7 o/p and 14 i/p devices involving extensive multithreading, synchronization, error handling and platform generic capabilities
  • SIMS Hospital SRM Institutes For Medical Science
    Cognitive Neuroscience Intern
    SIMS Hospital SRM Institutes For Medical Science
    Dec 2015 - Jul 2016 (8 months)
    • Conducted experimental studies on Mirror Neuron Systems and its effect on empathy through visual stimuli.
    • Designed machine learning system to analyze and predict the empathetic ability and arousal state of subjects using regression and classification models on brain imaging data with 86.67% accuracy.
    • Analysed the efficiency of 6 different classification models on 64 channel 1028Hz EEG/ECoG data of 26hrs neurophysiological procedures.
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    Co-Founder, CTO
    The Cognitive Technologies
    Apr 2015 - Jul 2017 (2 years 4 months)
    TCT Corp. is a system hardware production and software development company
    • Architected and developed a system for Object tracking & telemetry prediction using real-time image processing in OpenCV.
    • Devloped a system for text extraction from ID cards of employees for digitalizing the database of one of the major natural resources extraction company - Vendata Limited.
    • Designed and developed Smart Transport System (STS) framework for SETC, Tamil Nadu, India - a network for tracking state owned transport vehicles.
  • C
    Ground and Telemetry Control Station Chief
    CanSat
    Dec 2014 - Jun 2015 (7 months)
    • Developed a miniaturized Satellite system (h:115mm; dia:66mm; 0.35Kg) for CANSAT, competition by AAS/AIAA & NASA, launched 1.45km into air, at an onboard 0.01mbps data transmission.
    • Built a real-time satellite data visualization dashboard using Java Swing and AWT libraries and maintained data logs on a file system backend.
    • Secured World Rank 1 in Critical Design Review
  • Kaashiv Infotech
    Research Advisor
    Kaashiv Infotech
    Apr 2014 - Jul 2015 (1 year 4 months)
    • Initiated the robotics wing for the company and conducted workshops on embedded systems and programming for professionals and students.
    • Built web pages using JSP, HTML, CSS and a MySQL backend for company administration.
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    Chief Programmer
    Robocon Tech Team
    Aug 2013 - Feb 2015 (1 year 7 months)
    • Developed firmware for (semi)autonomous robots capable of planning, locomotion, computer vision and game playing.
    • Hands on experience with industrial grade Maxon motors, IMUs, Microprocessors, LIDAR and other sensor and control systems.
    • Lead the team of 9 programmers for the year 2015 & 2014 & was the robot operator for the year 2014.
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  • University of Southern California
    Master’s Degree, Computer Science
    University of Southern California
    Jan 2016 - Jan 2018 (2 years 1 month)
  • SRM IST Chennai
    Engineer’s Degree, Computer Science
    SRM IST Chennai
    Jan 2012 - Jan 2016 (4 years 1 month)
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    Dimensional Affect Recognition of visual stimuli using EEG
    Sep 2017 - Current (9 years 1 month)
    Developed a system that quantifies the nature of visual stimulus using arousal, valence and dominance scales in real time using EEG signals processed through Neural Networks.
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    Neural network based motor controller
    Jan 2017 - Current (9 years 9 months)
    • Improved efficiency by 10% of 3 layer neural network of 1024 neurons simulating the spinal reflex arc, synthesized on FPGAs for achieving electronic parallelism during computation.
    • Created device drivers for the data acquisition system (DAQ) interfacing motor drivers and sensors which were controlled in a closed loop by the neural net.
  • C
    CHEAPEST SELF BALANCING BOT
    Aug 2015 - Current (11 years 2 months)
    Photoresistive property of LDRs was used alongside powerful White-LEDs. The inclination of bot was calculated using the analog outputs of the LDR-Voltage Divider circuit which acted as the feed for the control system of the bot’s motors. The cost of the whole bot (excl. microcontroller) was an estimated ₹200.00 (~ $3.31).
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    Smart Transport Systems
    May 2015 - Current (11 years 5 months)
    Built a bus tracking system using GPS, QR code way ticket generation technique to track the location of State Busses of TN, India and give notifications on bus delays and generate daily reports.
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    PIANNo–PHYSICAL IMPLEMENTATION OF ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS
    Apr 2015 - Current (11 years 6 months)
    Developed a pattern recognition system using Artificial Neural Network of 3 layers implemented via microcontrollers running embedded C modules, performed data ingestion using Java and physically implemented using non-linear circuitry
  • C
    Cloud-based data analysis and ML framework
    Oct 2016 - Jan 2017 (4 months)
    • Developed a cloud-based pervasive data-collection and analysis framework on AWS for EEG data
    multiple feature classification of hand movements using Python and Hadoop.
    • A feature selection technique using FFT was implemented, which was base classified by random
    subspace ensemble method using SVMS, and correlations were computed using MapReduce framework.
    Technologies: AWS, Hadoop, Python
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    Autonomous Object Path and Trajectory Detection
    Mar 2016 - Jun 2016 (4 months)
    • Built an object path and trajectory detection robot using C++ and OpenCV implemented in Raspberry Pi and Arduino.
    • The object was a soccer ball and the aim of the project was to develop a working robotic system that blocks the ball from entering the goal post.
    Technologies: C++, OpenCV
  • R
    Real time satellite monitoring system
    Feb 2015 - Jun 2015 (5 months)
    • Developed a miniaturized Satellite system (h:115mm; dia:66mm; 0.35Kg) for CANSAT, competition by AAS/AIAA & NASA, launched 1.45km into air, achieving on-board 0.01mbps data transmission.
    • Built a real-time satellite data visualization dash board using Java Swing and AWT libraries and maintained data logs on a file system backend.
    Technologies: embedded C, Java
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  • V
    Idea Clinic - Research Seed Money
    VicePresident Medical
    Awarded Rs.40,000/- for the on-going research project
  • A
    Most Efficient Robot Award
    ABU ROBOCON
    Was awarded the Most Efficient Robot award in the ABU Robocon – 2014, a national level competition against 100s of universities across India
  • C
    World Rank 1 in CANSAT
    CANSAT organised by AASAIAA NASA
    Secured World Rank 1 in Critical Design Review for a LEO Satellite System in CANSAT, a worldwide competition conducted by NASA & AAS
  • N
    Research Grant of $25,000
    Netz Cricket Corp India
    Received a research grant worth $25,000 for the project Autonomous Object Path and Trajectory Detection
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  • C
    Mu rhythm suppression during empathy and affective arousal emotiogenic visual stimuli
    Cognitive Science dropped publication
    The purpose of this human study was to study the characteristic mu suppression of mirror neuron system during different emotional stimuli and infer properties through statistical analysis.
  • I
    Effect of Affect on Mental Health
    Indian Journal of Science Technology Oct
    Proposed a novel mathematical model for a passive measure of recall memory in children of age group 10 to 15 who suffer from memory difficulties owing to affective effects.
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