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Avtar Khalsa

Tech Lead - Mobile

TrueCar, Inc.

Engineer

Location

Austin, Texas - United States

Industry

Internet


Bio

I graduated from Cornell University majoring in Electrical and Computer Engineering in May 2008. While there, I was the programming team leader on the Cornell Ranger Robot which broke the world record for longest distance walked by a robot on a single charge. After graduation, I founded and successfully raised a Series A investment round for Stiki Digital. I worked there as CEO/CTO, managing development of the Stiki Promotions engine until April 2009. I then went back to school for my Masters degree in Electrical and Computer engineering. Once I got my masters I moved to Austin Texas and began working in mobile development. I started out building Android apps for Fantrail LLC, and moved onto iPhone and Android apps for Agile Poet. Next I took a job as a senior mobile developer at GoldenFrog, where I was then promoted to Software Architect and for a few months also worked as a development manager for the mobile team. Robotics had always been my true passion though, so in October of 2014, I left GoldenFrog to work on my 3D printing startup: Photon Elephant. While I still write a lot of code, I now wear all the hats just like any other entrepreneur trying to get their company off the ground. Specialties: Android, iOS, python.