Baidyanath Kundu is a systems-focused software engineer and ETH Zürich master's student with 10 years of hands-on experience building performant C++ and full-stack solutions for scientific and enterprise domains. He has driven interoperable tooling at CERN (modernizing cppyy) and contributed core automatic-differentiation features to the ROOT ecosystem and the clad project used widely in physics data analysis. His work spans backend systems, performance-aware compiler/LLVM toolchains, and front-end UX tweaks from FOSSASIA projects to production webapps, showing comfort across the stack. At IBM he is developing post-training quantization methods to make large models robust on analog in-memory accelerators, bridging ML research and hardware constraints. Notably, his open-source contributions include improving Boost.Geometry WKT handling and advancing autodiff for array and derivative scenarios—efforts that directly benefit large-scale scientific workflows. He combines research-level thinking with practical delivery, routinely turning compiler and math-heavy problems into tested, deployable features.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science at Manipal Institute of Technology
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at ETH Zürich
Contributions:87 reviews, 45 commits, 25 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Baidyanath primarily contributed to the development of the clad library, focusing on automatic differentiation for C/C++. Their work involved refactoring and improving existing code related to derivative calculations and function handling, specifically modifying and extending built-in derivatives and creating methods for efficient derivative evaluation. They also added and modified tests to validate the changes, including adapting the test suite for array inputs and improved functionality for more complex scenarios involving custom derivatives and various data types. This suggests a focus on enhancing the core functionality and reliability of the autodiff engine.
FOSSASIA Google Code-In Website 2016/17 http://gci16.fossasia.org
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:8 commits, 23 PRs, 41 comments in 18 days
Contributions summary:Baidyanath primarily contributed to the front-end development of the FOSSASIA Google Code-In website. Their work involved adding and modifying logos, specifically integrating MBDyn logos. They also updated the website's HTML and CSS, and implemented redirects. Furthermore, the user made minor updates to the javascript file.
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