Sai Arava
Principal Systems Engineer at NVIDIA
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSai Arava is a Principal Systems Engineer based in San Francisco with 11 years of experience building production AI and ML systems for large enterprises. He led generative AI, agentic workflows, and customer-facing ML applications at Adobe—translating business needs into scalable data pipelines, APIs, and product features used by major customers like NVIDIA and ESRI. Sai combines deep quantitative training (dual degree in Mathematics & Statistics from IIT Kanpur and a Stanford AI certificate) with hands-on engineering across infrastructure, modeling, and product teams. His background spans ad-tech attribution models, real-time bidding optimizations, and marketing intelligence to generative-AI agents that boost marketer productivity. At NVIDIA he now focuses on AI systems engineering at scale, bringing experience from across research, applied AI, infra, and go-to-market collaboration. He’s also mentored dozens of aspiring ML practitioners, reflecting a commitment to democratizing applied AI beyond pure research.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology KanpurGraduate Certificate, Artificial Intelligence, Graduate Certificate, Artificial Intelligence at Stanford University
Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, English
Github Skills (38)
intellij9
deploying9
backend8
nd4j8
java8
keras-tensorflow8
linear-algebra7
artificial-intelligence7
spark7
differentiation7
scala7
gpu7
keras7
python7
c-library7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
avkumar/influence_maximization
Jun 2014 - May 2015
Contributions:27 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
avkumar/DataScienceChallenge
Jan 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:4 pushes in 4 months
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