Saikat Banerjee
Engineering Manager, AI Infrastructure (Containers And Compute) at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolSaikat Banerjee is an engineering leader with 11 years of experience who currently manages a 30-engineer AI infrastructure org at AWS that powers containerized inference for frontier customers including Anthropic and Bedrock. He owns container runtimes, the CRI stack and Bottlerocket OS, driving platforms that underpin $2B+ in downstream revenue and a $150M+ Windows Containers ARR under his P&L. Known for pragmatic technical depth from kernel-level tradeoffs to org-level strategy, he created Finch and SOCI to cut container startup times 2–3x and eliminated $15M+ in annual licensing costs. Saikat blends product instincts and open-source stewardship—his teams contribute to containerd, Moby and have drawn upstream adoption from Alibaba and Palantir—while also delivering developer productivity gains that reduced engineering cycle times 30–60%. He pairs an MIT systems background and cross-company partnerships (including Microsoft) with a track record of reorganizing teams for single-threaded ownership and rapid release cadence improvements.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Systems Engineering (Operations Research, AI, Supply Chain Engineering), Master's degree, Systems Engineering (Operations Research, AI, Supply Chain Engineering) at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBachelor's degree (B.Tech), Computer Science, Bachelor's degree (B.Tech), Computer Science at West Bengal University of Technology, KolkataExecutive FNFE, Finance, Executive FNFE, Finance at Indian Institute of Management BangaloreHarvard/MIT cross-registrant, Strategy, Harvard/MIT cross-registrant, Strategy at Harvard Business School
English, Hindi, Bengali
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Github Skills (43)
authenticate10
fetcher9
active-directory9
credentials8
grid8
excel8
chrome-extension8
firefox-addon8
daemon8
bypass7
data-management7
grids7
chrome7
spreadsheet7
datagrid6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
sb-ruisms/teddy-secure
Dec 2018 - Feb 2021
Contributions:17 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
bongdreams/MachineLearningExercises
Dec 2018 - Mar 2019
Contributions:28 pushes in 3 months
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