# Aaryan Patil

**Co-Founder & Software Engineer at Engram Robotics** — United States

> Berkeley CS + Data Science student building distributed software systems for physical AI robots. Combines foundation model research with production systems shipping real multi-step task execution.

Career Archetype: **Frontier Navigator** (RS-DG) — One of the first Frontier Navigators on Saywise

## Links

- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/aaryan-patil-9a4b53325?utm_source=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=member_ios
- GitHub: https://github.com/aaryanpatil2007
- Website: https://aaryanpatil.dev

## Experience

### Software Engineer, Walmart (2026-10 – present)

### Co-Founder & Software Engineer, Engram Robotics (2026-03 – present)
Berkeley, CA · Co-founded a robotics company building distributed software for physical AI. Designed and shipped the core orchestration service with an LLM planner that compiles natural-language instructions into validated task graphs, dispatches capabilities over a real-time pub/sub message bus (DDS/ROS2), and handles failure detection at the orchestration layer. Built the stateful context service with interruptible task stack, persistent vector store for retrieval-augmented generation, and containerized testing. Achieved 80–90% success rates on locomotion and manipulation tasks.

### Undergraduate Machine Learning Researcher, Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (2026-02 – present)
Berkeley, CA · Third author on ICRA 2027 paper introducing a context-conditioned vision-language-action model that learns new tasks zero-shot from 1–2 demonstrations on a frozen foundation-model backbone. Implemented cross-attention conditioning and short-term memory modules in PyTorch; diagnosed and fixed a bf16 numerical overflow that reduced auxiliary loss from ~1.0 to ~0.009. Owns multi-GPU distributed training and architecture ablations on Berkeley's compute cluster and built automated benchmarking pipelines evaluating policies across simulation suites.

### COO, Stealth Startup (2026-01 – present)

### Co-Founder & Software Engineer, breefly (2025-08 – 2026-03)
Berkeley, CA · Built and scaled a consumer web platform compressing long lectures into structured video. Grew to 7,000+ users and 2M+ organic impressions, raised a pre-seed round at $3M valuation. Owned the backend including transcript ingestion, contextual compression pipeline, asynchronous media-processing job queue, and the REST API serving the web client.

## Education

### Computer Science in Data Science, University of California, Berkeley (2024-09 – 2028-06)
GPA: 3.85/4.00

### Northwood High School
4.6 GPA, Vice President @ Biology Olympiad Club, Treasurer @ UNICEF

## Projects

### Building GPT from Scratch
Transformer implementation from first principles · Implemented a full transformer end-to-end from scratch: byte-pair tokenization, multi-head causal self-attention, positional embeddings, and the full training loop without high-level modeling libraries.

### VisionScreen
Webcam-based vision screening battery · Built a browser-based vision screening battery with a dense encoder-decoder performing semantic segmentation of the eye. Trained locally on an M4 Max using PyTorch's Metal backend.

### Mentora
AI voice tutor with spatial memory canvas · Built a voice-interactive tutoring system with a spatial memory canvas that speaks, listens, and renders visual components. Implemented multimodal RAG combining voice, visuals, and chat history.

## Skills

C/C++, Python, Java, C#, JavaScript, TypeScript, SQL, Bash, ROS2, DDS, MCP, PyTorch, GR00T, OpenCV, FastAPI, React, Node.js, Next.js, ChromaDB, Whisper, pandas, NumPy, Docker, Linux, NVIDIA CUDA, TensorRT, AWS, PostgreSQL, Redis, Git, CI/CD

## Credentials

- **2023 USA Biology Olympiad Semifinalist + Honorable Mention** — USA Biology Olympiad (issued 2023-03)
- **Paderewski Guild Medalist** — American College Of Musicians (issued 2022-07)
- **Piano Certificate of Merit Level 10 - OC Branch & California State Honors Award** — Music Teachers' Association of California (issued 2022-05)
- **4x USA Fencing All-American First Team** — USA Fencing
- **4x USA Fencing Medalist** — USA Fencing

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