Amitabha Banerjee
Senior Principal Engineer at SambaNova Systems
Belmont, California, United States
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Top SchoolAmitabha Banerjee is a Senior Principal Engineer based in Belmont, California with 16+ years of experience specializing in full-stack performance engineering across systems, virtualization, and AI hardware/software stacks. He has held senior technical roles at SambaNova Systems, VMware, Oracle, Sun Microsystems and UC Davis, consistently driving performance optimization and architectural improvements in large-scale, production environments. Trained as an electrical engineer at IIT Delhi and holding a Ph.D. in computer science from UC Davis, he blends deep academic rigor with practical system-building skills. Amitabha is hands-on with low-level performance tuning as well as higher-level distributed system design, and he enjoys hacking on robotics-related projects—his GitHub highlights experiments with Anki robots. Colleagues rely on him for solving thorny performance regressions and translating research insights into deployable, high-throughput solutions. He brings a rare combination of hardware-aware software expertise and a long track record of impact at both research labs and industry leaders.
16 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi)Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at University of California, Davis
Hindi, Bengali
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Github Skills (13)
robot8
benchmarking6
anki4
python3
vector3
sdk3
networking2
generative-ai2
robotics2
llm-inference1
reinforcement-learning1
deep-learning1
deep-neural-networks1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
hiamitabha/wire-pod
Sep 2023 - Feb 2025
Fork from official wire-pod repository
Contributions:7 PRs, 33 pushes, 8 branches in 1 year 5 months
hiamitabha/course
Mar 2020 - Jul 2022
Material for "Learn AI with a robot"
Contributions:45 commits, 7 PRs, 54 pushes in 2 years 4 months
robot
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