Saarang Srinivasan
Founding Engineer at Pika
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSaarang Srinivasan is a founding engineer specializing in cutting-edge text-to-video generation at Pika Labs, with eight years of experience across ML systems, distributed infrastructure, and applied deep learning. A Purdue CS graduate (3.94 GPA) and Indian National Olympiad in Informatics gold medalist, he combines competitive programming pedigree with practical product delivery—from containerized MLOps at Hacklab to flight-critical C/C++ work at Collins Aerospace. He has taught and developed core algorithms and discrete math courses for large undergraduate cohorts, and his research at Purdue explored reinforcement learning dynamics in fair-division and Stackelberg settings. Equally comfortable writing production infra and research simulations, he’s built self-healing, scalable deployments and optimized ML pipelines to measurable effect. Known for rapid prototyping and bridging theory to systems, he’s also active in competitive coding and education initiatives such as USACO instruction and ICPC problem setting.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
AI Startup School, AI Startup School at Y CombinatorBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 3.94, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 3.94 at Purdue UniversityHigh School Diploma, Computer Science, High School Diploma, Computer Science at National Public School
English, Sanskrit, Tamil, Hindi
Github Skills (18)
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python3
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javascript2
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
saarang123/Competitive-Programming
May 2021 - Jan 2022
Contributions:15 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
saarang123/INOI-ZCO
Dec 2019 - Dec 2020
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year
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