Arunaabha Yadavalli

Sup! For those who are in a dash, here's the gist: I'm just a guy who codes. I enjoy leveling up by learning new technologies and building cool stuff that drives tangible change. I approach any project with obsession and I am always eying opportunities to learn more. I am a huge Marvel fan and I also love playing sports!

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Experience

Amazon Web Services — AWS Core Networking

May 2025 – Aug 2025
Software Development Engineer Intern
Seattle, WA

Refactored a traffic forecasting API to pull in new timeseries sources, meaningfully improving forecast accuracy, and built a Jupyter dashboard monitoring load balancers to speed up oncall capacity checks.

UC Berkeley — ME 132 Feedback Controls, ME 40 Thermodynamics

Jun 2024 – Dec 2024
Teaching Staff (Grader)
Berkeley, CA

Graded a large volume of assignments and exams across two engineering courses serving many undergraduates.

Berkeley Hybrid Robotics Lab

Sep 2022 – Dec 2023
Undergraduate Researcher
Berkeley, CA

Built an optimal LQR controller for a Unitree A1 quadruped, modeling it as an inverted pendulum to achieve a handstand on one leg.

Skills

Languages
PythonCC++Rust GoOCamlJavaBash gRPCx86RISC-V KotlinJulia
Cloud Services / AWS Tools
S3LambdaDynamoDB IAMGlueEC2 CloudFormationCloudWatch
AI / ML / LLM
PyTorchTensorFlowJAX NumpyCUDAPandas CVXPYscikit-learnHugging Face Semantic KernelLangChaincuTile
Robotics
ROS2MuJoCoIsaac Sim Isaac LabOpenCVCasADi Acados
Web Development
ReactHTMLCSS REST APINodeJWT Tokens SpringMongoDBTomcat VueJSSQL
Systems / Infrastructure
DockerKubernetesSpark KafkaFlinkMapReduce Git

Projects

Competitive Deep RL Autonomous Drone Racer

PPO reinforcement learning, MPC, and CMPCC controllers racing drones in NVIDIA Isaac Sim, achieving a top lap time and ranking first in safety on A2RL's 2025 track.

MapReduce

Distributed MapReduce system in Rust and gRPC with a coordinator that splits jobs across workers and automatically reassigns work from crashed ones.

Pintos Operating System

OS kernel with thread and file syscalls, strict priority scheduling, a buffer cache, and an extensible inode file system.

Sports Pulse

Android sports news app pulling live headlines from numerous RSS feeds across many sports, built with Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, MVVM, Hilt, and Retrofit.

BropDoX

Secure Go file sharing app letting users store, edit, and share documents under a hybrid RSA and encrypt then MAC encryption scheme.

GripAAAA

ROS2 robot that autonomously detects, navigates to, grasps, and delivers wooden cubes from a source to a home base.