Summary
Abhijit Paithankar is an AI and HPC engineering tech lead and manager with nearly two decades of experience building scalable distributed systems, GPU compute infrastructure, and cloud-native platforms. He has led teams and shipped products at NVIDIA and Nutanix, co-founded Crave.IO (a cloud-agnostic serverless batch compute platform that achieved six-figure ARR enterprise deals), and helped launch VMware VSAN and other storage innovations. His hands-on systems expertise spans OS internals, virtualization, containers, networking, file systems, and memory management, with fluent programming in Python, Go, C and C++. Abhijit blends product-minded engineering with operational rigor, driving ML/DL infrastructure and HPC clusters from prototype to production at scale. He has a track record of turning low-level kernel and storage work into customer-facing cloud services and thrives on solving the hardest performance and scalability problems. Based in the United States, he pairs entrepreneurial experience with enterprise delivery, often bridging deep technical design and go-to-market outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
H.S.C., H.S.C. at Karnatak High School
B.E. Industrial Electronics, B.E. Industrial Electronics at Savitribai Phule Pune University
B.E Industrial Electronics, B.E Industrial Electronics at Bharti Vidyapeeth College of Engineering
Information Retrieval and Web Search (CS 276) Coursework Computer Science, Information Retrieval and Web Search (CS 276) Coursework Computer Science at Stanford University