Summary
Abhilash Iyer is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building cloud-native and edge AI systems, currently developing Azure Arc and Kubernetes configuration solutions at Microsoft. He blends embedded systems expertise with cloud-scale engineering, having led vision inference and DeepStream accelerator work that brought multiple Azure AI camera devices from private to public preview. His background spans firmware and hardware design for wearables and IoT, real-time ML on AI accelerators (Nvidia Orin/T4, Intel MyriadX), and production deployments integrating GStreamer, OpenCV and Azure services. Notably, he holds a Microsoft IoT-certified patented device design and has collaborated with MS Research to harden SoM security and integrate state-of-the-art trackers like LightTrack into production pipelines. Based in Redmond, he combines hands-on low-level debugging and board bring-up with cloud deployment experience, making him effective across the full stack from silicon to distributed services.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Master's degree at Drexel University
Bachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at University of Mumbai
Tamil, Marathi, Hindi