Lokesh Kamanboina

Now

Building Tandem — CAD model, BOM, supplier quotes, and manufacturing intent in one synced tool.

Tandem collapses the handoffs between design and production, so hardware teams ship physical products in months, not years.

team of 9+ · year two · san francisco

Experience

1. Sep 2025 — Now

   Co-Founder — Tandem

   SF Bay Area. Building the workspace for hardware teams.

2. Jun — Aug 2025

   Research — Google

   Mountain View, CA. Firebase / Cloud infrastructure tooling.

3. Jun — Aug 2025

   Software Engineer Intern — CENTRL

   Mountain View, CA. AI document verification for finance clients, including JP Morgan.

4. May — Jul 2025

   Summer Program — Goldman Sachs

   Predictive financial modeling — return distributions and risk profiles.

5. Sep — Nov 2024

   Research Assistant — MIT Lincoln Laboratory

   Lexington, MA (remote). Machine learning for plasma stability prediction in fusion reactors.

Publications

1. Nov 2024

   Utilizing Machine Learning to Optimize Nuclear Energy Fusion in Reactors

   Amazon

2. Sep 2024

   AI in Early Diagnosis and Treatment Plans of Oncology

   SSRN

Photography

2022 — 2024 · Leica Q · Fuji X100V · Ricoh GR III