Akshay Sonawane
Software Engineer 2 at Microsoft
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAkshay Sonawane is a software engineer with three years of experience building low-level and performance-critical systems across cloud and embedded domains. He has contributed to AWS products like IoT Device Tester and EC2 Nitro OS—porting FreeRTOS features, automating device qualification, and developing custom OS components for Nitro cards—and now focuses on inference optimization at Microsoft’s ONNX Runtime to boost model performance on CPU and CUDA GPUs. With a Master’s in Computer Engineering from ASU and a background in robotics research, he brings both systems programming rigor and algorithmic thinking to production engineering. Based in Sunnyvale, he blends hands-on firmware/OS work with ML inference tuning, a combination that helps bridge device-level constraints and cloud-scale performance.
3 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Engineering, Master's degree, Computer Engineering at Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State UniversityBachelor’s Degree, Electrical Engineering, 8.03/10.00, Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical Engineering, 8.03/10.00 at Sardar Patel College of Engineering (SPCE),Mumbai
English, Hindi, Marathi
Github Skills (33)
pytorch10
ai-framework10
benchmark10
machine-learning10
accelerator10
cross-platform10
onnx10
hardware-acceleration10
keras10
nvidia10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
correctness10
scikit-learn10
performance-tuning10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
apsonawane/model-publish
Dec 2024 - Jan 2025
Contributions:89 pushes, 1 branch in 26 days
apsonawane/turnkeyml-cuda
Dec 2024 - Feb 2025
The no-code AI toolchain
Contributions:5 PRs, 24 pushes, 5 branches in 1 month
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