Ajay Hotchandani
Software Engineer at NVIDIA
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAjay Hotchandani is a seasoned software engineer with 14 years of experience specializing in Linux, high-performance networking, and distributed systems. He has driven low-latency protocol design and scalability work across Oracle, Meta, and now NVIDIA—reducing HA recovery times by ~90%, bootstrapping multi-node NVLink, and adding topology-aware communication optimizations for AI training clusters. Comfortable across the full project lifecycle, Ajay excels at surfacing hardware/firmware limits and engineering software workarounds, as well as developing tooling and validation to localize cluster failures. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he brings deep InfiniBand/RDMA and Ethernet switch automation expertise and a knack for spotting subtle design and implementation flaws before they hit production. An engineer who blends systems-level rigor with practical performance tuning, he often operates at the intersection of kernel, user-space, and network hardware.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering at Dharmsinh Desai University
Github Skills (22)
linux-distribution10
python10
machine-learning10
linux-kernel10
kernel10
deep-learning10
gpu10
oracle-linux10
numpy9
linux9
tensorflow9
neural-network9
gpu-acceleration9
oracle9
autograd8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
oracle/linux-uek
Dec 2011 - Feb 2019
Oracle Linux UEK: Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel
Contributions:219 commits in 7 years 3 months
kernellinux-distributionlinuxoraclelinux-kernel
aosp-mirror/kernel_common
Nov 2011 - Sep 2017
Contributions:3 commits in 5 years 11 months
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