Anand Jayarajan
Engineering Manager at NVIDIA
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAnand Jayarajan is an engineering manager and builder who blends deep academic research with startup-scale product engineering across AI infrastructure and systems. As Co-Founder and Chief Architect of CentML and a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto, he specializes in compilers, programming languages, and large-scale data-processing optimizations that reduce the cost of training and inference in production. His work has been published at ASPLOS, MLSys, MICRO and USENIX, and he translates those research insights into turn-key platform features that help enterprises maximize compute utilization. With 11 years of industry experience spanning Oracle, Flipkart, NVIDIA, and high-growth startups, he brings both production rigor and entrepreneurial velocity to complex infrastructure problems. Based in Toronto, Anand is quietly experimental—building practical performance tooling and deployment optimizers that bridge lab advances to real-world savings. He also invests as an angel, signaling a broader interest in scaling early-stage technical teams and products.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at The University of British ColumbiaDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of TorontoBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science at National Institute of Technology Calicut
Malayalam, English
Github Skills (37)
portable10
javascript10
dep10
dataflow10
mxnet10
scheduler10
golang10
mutation10
julia10
data-science9
scala9
python9
machine-learning9
deep-learning9
neural-network8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
anandj91/pytorch
Jul 2019 - Oct 2023
Tensors and Dynamic neural networks in Python with strong GPU acceleration
Contributions:4 pushes, 5 branches in 4 years 2 months
pythongpu-accelerationdeep-learninggpuacceleration
ampersand-projects/reffine
Dec 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:33 reviews, 23 PRs, 85 pushes in 3 months
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