Ashwin Poojary
Director Of Engineering at NVIDIA
Menlo Park, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAshwin Poojary is a Director of Engineering based in Menlo Park with nine years of experience leading large-scale AI infrastructure, SRE and production engineering teams across hyperscale data centers. He has managed 100+ engineers at NVIDIA to build resiliency, failure attribution and platform services for DGX Cloud supporting frontier model training, and previously led global platform SRE at Twitter and hardware fleet reliability for millions of servers at Facebook. His background spans networking, systems and hardware-software integration—from contributing to Facebook’s open switching (fboss) CLI enhancements to shipping virtual router products at Juniper that generated significant revenue. Known for bridging research and production, he supports and operationalizes cutting-edge model research (Nemotron family papers) while serving as an editor and reviewer for leading AI and cluster computing journals. Pragmatic and detail-oriented, he combines kernel-to-cloud technical depth with people-first leadership and a track record of reducing toil and improving observability at scale.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BE (Bachelors in Engineering) Computer Science and Engineering, BE (Bachelors in Engineering) Computer Science and Engineering at Manipal Institute of TechnologyCertificate BUS 06 Cultivate Your Team: Leadership for the New Work Environment, Certificate BUS 06 Cultivate Your Team: Leadership for the New Work Environment at Stanford Continuing StudiesLittle Rock Indian SchoolBE Computer Science and Engineering, BE Computer Science and Engineering at Manipal University
English, Hindi, Kannada
Github Skills (7)
python10
cli10
system-testing9
bash8
script8
devops8
network-monitoring7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (2)
facebook/fboss
Sep 2016 - Aug 2019
Facebook Open Switching System
Software for controlling network switches.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:6 commits in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Ashwin contributed to the fboss project by enhancing the "port status" CLI command to display power in milliwatts, alongside existing dBm values, indicating a focus on improving network switch diagnostics. They also addressed linting issues within the Python code of the fboss CLI, ensuring code quality and maintainability. Furthermore, the user added functionalities like validating cable types and a server port flap test, highlighting their involvement in functional testing and system-level verification. They created a stub for a NIC vendor CLI.
facebookcontrollingswitchingsystem-softwareswitches
opencomputeproject/ocp-diag-pcicrawler
Aug 2020 - Oct 2020
pcicrawler is a Python based command line interface tool which can be used to display, filter and export information about PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect) or PCIe buses and devices, as well as PCI topology.
Contributions:1 review, 4 comments in 1 month
cliinterconnectpythonexportcommand-line-interface
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