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Varun Soni

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Senior Software Development Engineer at Tesla
📍 San Francisco Bay Area, United States

Varun Soni is a Senior Software Development Engineer at Tesla with expertise in automotive electronics and embedded systems. His background includes developing code for embedded processors at MathWorks and he holds a Master of Science from the University of Texas at Austin, along with a certification as a Self-Driving Car Engineer.

He has a passion for mentoring and hands-on technology projects. As a teaching assistant, he nurtured undergraduate teams to design and build a 3D food printer, teaching them to use hardware like Arduino and Raspberry Pi for controlling motors.

Unique fact: Varun was named a JN Tata Scholar, a highly selective scholarship awarded to approximately 100 students annually for higher studies.

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Experience
9 Years
Current Role
Senior Software Development Engineer
Job Level
Middle
Location
San Francisco Bay Area, United States
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Automotive Software
Currently a Senior Software Development Engineer at Tesla with skills in automotive electronics and system testing, and a certification as a Self-Driving Car Engineer.
Embedded Systems
At MathWorks, he developed and tested backend systems that generate C/C++ code from Simulink models for embedded processors used in machine learning and computer vision.
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Career

Work history

12-2021
Senior Software Development Engineer
Tesla
7-2020 - 12-2021
Quality Engineer
MathWorks
1-2020 - 5-2020
Graduate Research Assistant
The University of Texas at Austin
9-2019 - 1-2020
Graduate Teaching Assistant
The University of Texas at Austin
6-2019 - 8-2019
Intern
GenXComm Inc.
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Media appearances

Software Engineering Daily Episode 1558 – Varun Soni on Tesla Software Development. Featured in Software Engineering Daily
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Guest: Varun Soni – Tesla Senior Software Development Engineer. Featured in YouTube
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Education
2018 - 2020
Master of Science - MS
Cockrell School of Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin
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