Gayatri K Sukumar
Principal Engineer Team Lead at Motional AD Inc
- Role
- Principal Engineer Team Lead (Senior Engineering Manager) at Motional
- Location
- Denver, CO, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Gayatri K Sukumar
Extensive leadership experience in complex software product delivery, consistently achieving deadlines, while maintaining high quality, reliability and performance. Deep understanding of software development for edge devices and integrating ML & AI into product development, not only yielding highly competitive products, but also fostering groundbreaking innovations in the process.Key enabler of management activities like cross-division collaboration, vendor evaluation, selection and management, mergers and acquisitions.Passionate about identifying and nurturing leadership potential.
Experience
Principal Engineer Team Lead (Senior Engineering Manager)
Nov 2024 — Present · US
Unified AV Metrics Strategy: Spearheaded the architecture and convergence of 3+ fragmented evaluation frameworks into a single \"Source of Truth.\" Successfully deprecated legacy systems, reducing technical debt and achieving 100% adoption across ML Planner, Controls, PnS Planner, Prediction and Systems teams.Driverless Safety & Validation: Established the foundational \"gatekeeper\" for Driverless Release Promotions. Integrated advanced statistical clustering and precision/recall validation for 85+ high-fidelity metrics, allowing the team to prioritize high-severity failure modes over noisy data.Organizational Leadership & Resilience: Served as Interim Manager for the Annotation and Sub-system Evaluation departments during critical leadership vacancies. Stabilized budgets, mentored emerging leads, and ensured zero interruptions to mission-critical pipelines during major transitions.Team Scaling & Talent Density: Scaled the Metrics team from a \"seed\" of two into a high-output unit. Proactively recruited top-tier engineering talent and fostered a customer-centric culture that accelerated delivery velocity for the 2025 roadmap.
Education
Great Lakes Institute of Management
Master's Degree, PGPBABI - Post Graduate Program in Business Analytics and Business Intelligence
2014 — 2015
Kumaraguru College of Technology
Bachelor's Degree, Electronics and Communications Engineering
1999 — 2003
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