Vamshi Balanaga
accelerating chip design @ partcl
Experience
Career
2025Partcl
Co-founderCofounder & CTO · San Francisco Bay Area · 2025 – Present
2023Stanford University
PhD Candidate in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science · Palo Alto, California, United States · 2023 – 2024
2022University of California, Berkeley
Experimental Condensed Matter Research Assistant · Berkeley, CA · 2022 – 2023
2021Berkeley Wireless Research Center
ML Research Assistant · Berkeley, CA · 2021 – 2023
2022Apple
Embedded Machine Learning Engineer · Cupertino, California, United States · 2022
2020University of California, Berkeley
Plasma Physics Research Assistant · Berkeley, California, United States · 2020 – 2022
2021Carbon Robotics
Firmware Engineer · Seattle, Washington, United States · 2021
2021Space Enterprise at Berkeley
GNC Engineer · Berkeley, California, United States · 2021
2020Space Enterprise at Berkeley
Head of Avionics · 2020 – 2021
2019Space Enterprise at Berkeley
Avionics Engineer · Berkeley, CA · 2019 – 2020
2021BLUE ORIGIN
Avionics Engineer · Seattle, Washington, United States · 2021
2020Fulfil
Controls Engineer · Redwood City, California, United States · 2020
2019Blockchain at Berkeley
Developer Consultant · Berkeley, CA · 2019 – 2020
2019Sandia National Laboratories
Research And Development Intern · Albuquerque, New Mexico Area · 2019 – 2020
- 2018
Nuclear Science and Security Consortium
Undergraduate Research Assistant · Berkeley, CA · 2018 – 2019
2018IUPUI
Research Assistant · Indianapolis, Indiana Area · 2018
Bio
CTO at Partcl. Previously built embedded ML models at Apple, laser weeding robots at Carbon Robotics, and warehouse automation robots at Fulfil Solutions. Built and launched multiple rockets while running the avionics team at Space Enterprise at Berkeley, Stanford EECS PhD (dropout), UC Berkeley Physics.