Omkar Desai
Senior Engineer, AI Systems at Samsung Semiconductor
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolOmkar Desai is a research-focused software engineer and PhD student in storage systems with eight years of experience building scalable data and storage infrastructure for academia and industry. He combines deep systems expertise—file systems, SSD capacity/performance/reliability, and operating systems engineering—with cloud-native data engineering skills in Python, C++, Kubernetes, and AWS. At Syracuse University he leads research on solid-state storage and big data systems, while earlier roles at Samsung and Practo involved building full-stack SSD simulators and multi-terabyte data pipelines respectively. He has a practical habit of turning research prototypes into deployed systems, from smart-SSD experiments to IoT-enabled wellness platforms recording thousands of data points per hour. Trained at Stevens Institute of Technology and grounded in biomedical engineering early in his career, he brings a unique intersection of hardware-aware storage research and production-grade cloud engineering.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Syracuse UniversityMaster's degree Computer Engineering, Master's degree Computer Engineering at Stevens Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Engineering - BE Biomedical/Medical Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Biomedical/Medical Engineering at Dwarkadas J. Sanghvi College of Engineering
Github Skills (66)
python10
etl10
automation10
mlops10
orchestration10
monitoring10
apache-airflow10
data-engineering10
linux10
leveldb10
scheduler10
elt10
data-integration10
data-pipelines10
data-science10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
swiftomkar/swiftomkar.github.io
Dec 2020 - May 2026
Github Pages template for academic personal websites, forked from mmistakes/minimal-mistakes
Contributions:32 pushes in 5 years 5 months
templategithub-pages-templatemmistakesmistakesjekyll
swiftomkar/leveldb-triad
Oct 2020 - Dec 2020
LevelDB is a fast key-value storage library written at Google that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values.
Contributions:11 PRs, 51 pushes, 5 branches in 1 month
key-valueleveldbtostring
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