Industry Experience
- Principal Engineer, SambaNova Systems (Sep 2020 - Present)
Technical Lead for the NLP Product Line:- Coordinated and lead the timely execution of key customer engagements that involved collaborating with 6+ teams and 100+ employees. The customer engagements eventually led to large revenue generating contract over multiple years.
- Scaled the NLP Team to 7 members
- Led the development of the first large LM (100B+ parameter) for finance domain
- Develop roadmap for expanding the NLP product portfolio offered to enterprise customers
- Develop enterprise NLP applications like Named Entity Recognition, Document Classification and Sentiment Analysis
- Develop the model compression (structured pruning and block sparsity) and efficient deployment product to enable our customers to deploy LM Applications efficiently
- Senior Research Engineer, ML Research Lab, Arm (July 2016 - Sep 2020)
- Improved execution of RNNs and FC layers on Arm Hardware - Compression techniques, Software libraries, Software tools
- Exploration of Hardware Accelerators for CNNs
- Performance benchmarking of Deep Learning workloads
- Identifying university collaboration opportunities
- Arm Research's representative at the TinyML Performance Working Group
- Performance Architecture Intern, AMD (May 2015 - July 2015)
- Developed a state of the art indirect brnach predictor that provided better accuracy than similar techniques in Academia
- The design was incorporated in AMD Servers that were out in the market around 2018/2019
- Design Engineer, Kilby Labs, Texas Instruments (Jan 2014 - Jun 2014)
- Exploration of a neural network accelrator for Industry IoT use case
- Design Engineer, OMAP Group, Texas Instruments (July 2012 - Dec 2014)
- Design and Verification of Memory Controllers, Processor SubSystem, ECC Memories and H.264 Video Encoder/Decoder
- Software Engineering Intern, Broadcom (Jan 2012 - May 2012)
- Research Intern, Robotics lab, IIIT Hyderabad (May 2011 - July 2011)
