Kiran Ranganath
Principal Software Engineer at SambaNova Systems
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKiran Ranganath is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of experience focused on building and researching high-performance machine learning systems and GPGPU architectures. Currently at SambaNova, he drives performance research for ML systems and has evolved from senior engineering roles into principal-level system optimization work. His background blends deep academic research—a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from UC Riverside—with hands-on industry experience at AMD, PNNL, and cloud/SDN projects at MapleLabs. An active open-source contributor, Kiran has improved benchmarking and performance tooling in prominent projects like OpenStack Rally, reflecting a pragmatic focus on measurable system performance. He combines low-level systems expertise (PIM, exascale runtimes) with applied AI performance tuning, making him effective at translating research insights into production gains. Based in California, he’s particularly interested in squeezing more performance out of AI stacks rather than only pursuing model-level improvements.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering at Visvesvaraya Technological UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Electrical and Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of California, Riverside
Github Skills (14)
benchmarking10
benchmark10
openstack10
openstack-neutron10
python10
n10
apidoc9
automation9
automations9
api9
kubernetes6
docker6
kubernetes-pods6
dockers6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/rally
Jun 2015 - Mar 2016
Rally provides a framework for performance analysis and benchmarking of individual OpenStack components as well as full production OpenStack cloud deployments. Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
Back-end & Automation Engineer
Back-end & Automation EngineerContributions:25 commits in 9 months
Contributions summary:Kiran contributed significantly to enhancing the Rally framework, focusing on performance analysis and benchmarking within the OpenStack environment. Their work involved fixing bugs related to password handling and adding validators for parameters in dictionary arguments. They implemented and tested scenarios for Neutron Loadbalancer v1, specifically focusing on create, delete, update, and list operations for pools and vips. Additionally, the user refactored the directory structure and made improvements related to test structures.
individualbenchmarkingperformance-analysisrallyopendev
Kiran-r/apicapi
Oct 2015 - Apr 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push in 2 years 7 months
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