Sammy Sidhu
CEO, Cofounder at Eventual
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolSammy Sidhu is a CEO and co-founder with a decade of experience building high-performance systems for AI, autonomous vehicles, and low-latency finance. He leads Eventual, the startup behind Daft, a Rust-based distributed query engine that unifies multimodal AI/ML and analytics workloads and is backed by YC. Prior roles include leading perception and ML platform efforts at Lyft Level 5/Woven Planet and scaling computer-vision and data pipelines as Chief Architect at DeepScale (acquired by Tesla), with over a dozen patents and publications in efficient vision and HPC. His background spans high-frequency trading, medical AI research at UC Berkeley, and embedded ML compilers—demonstrating a rare blend of research depth and production optimization that saved Lyft millions in compute and storage. A Bay Area native and UC Berkeley EECS alumnus, he combines systems-level engineering (Rust, Python, distributed systems) with hands-on research leadership. He also maintains active open-source work through Eventual (getdaft.io), signaling a commitment to making high-performance data infrastructure broadly available.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, Bachelor’s Degree Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at University of California, BerkeleyY Combinator
English
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Github contributions (5)
Coder106/django-powered-website
Jan 2017 - Aug 2018
Contributions:20 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
Coder106/webscraping-homework
Mar 2019 - Jan 2021
Contributions:29 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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