Who is Ashok Elluswamy, first hire for Tesla Autopilot after Musk's tweet?

Tesla CEO Elon Musk recently revealed that Indian-origin techie Ashok Elluswamy was the first person recruited from Musk's tweet about Tesla building its Autopilot team. Elluswamy, the head of Tesla's Autopilot engineering, earned his Bachelor of Engineering degree from Chennai and Master of Science degree from Carnegie Mellon University, US. He's been working with Tesla for more than seven years.