Pradeep Banavara
Founder at Rekura
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolPradeep Banavara is a serial founder and seasoned software engineer with 12 years of experience building high-impact products and platforms across AI, e-commerce, and infrastructure. He has led technical strategy and migrations for billion-dollar e-commerce stacks, driven architectural engagements at Aerospike, and delivered a semantic search grocery app in under two months with a tiny team—outperforming much larger internal teams. A relentless builder with six prior startups (backing from Microsoft and Bloomberg Beta), he blends hands-on systems engineering—databases, low-latency inference, and distributed services—with product instincts to find pragmatic solutions. Recent work spans vision-language-action robotics, attention-free diffusion research, and on-device quantized models, showing a strong focus on production ML and cost-efficient deployment. Based in San Francisco, he now builds AI risk intelligence for healthcare, applying his pattern of rapid prototyping and rigorous system design to regulated domains. Notably, he pairs deep low-level optimization experience (Triton/CUTLASS, vLLM) with strategic leadership, making him effective at both proof-of-concept innovation and large-scale operationalization.
12 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science at Kuvempu UniversityMaster's degree, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies, Master's degree, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies at University of San Francisco
English
Stackoverflow
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29answers
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Github Skills (82)
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deep-learning10
instance-segmentation10
gpu10
gpu-acceleration10
yolov710
yolov510
acceleration10
onnx10
ml10
numpy10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
pbanavara/tensorflow
Sep 2017 - Jul 2018
Computation using data flow graphs for scalable machine learning
Contributions:26 pushes in 9 months
computationscalabledata-sciencemachine-learninggraphs
pbanavara/convnets
Jan 2017 - Jan 2023
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years
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