I'm a System Safety Manager at Rivian Automotive leading a team of talented engineers across projects in defining safety architecture for vehicle controls and testing requirements.
Before Rivian, I was working in Lyft's autonomous L5 division. What I loved about this role was navigating through ambiguity given the autonomous safety space was, and in some aspects, still is, largely undefined. At Lyft, I primarily focused on software functional safety where we worked on defining a new age software safety architecture that can support driverless cars. I worked closely with the sensor teams - perception, prediction, planning and control teams to define safety critical features for their work streams.
I've represented Lyft as an active member of AVSC (The Automated Vehicle Safety Consortium) and supported the committee with the publication of "AVSC Best Practice for First Responder Interactions with Fleet-Managed Automated Driving System-Dedicated Vehicles (ADS-DVs)".
I've been invited as a Safety Advisor for aUToronto, The University of Toronto Self-Driving Car Team and to multiple university challenges as a judge, like MIT IDEAS Reviewing Committee, Big Ideas Contest Judge at University of California, Berkeley, Conrad Challenge, Silicon Valley Innovation Challenge Judge at San Jose State University, California, etc.
I also hold an approved patent on Control Redundancy (https://patents.google.com/patent/US10331128). Over the course of my career I've also obtained an ISO 26262 certification. I truly love what I do and therefore I try to share and learn as much as I can.
