Summary
Saptadeep Pal is a hardware-focused Chief Architect with a decade of experience driving chiplet and waferscale processor research into product-focused startups from Cupertino. He earned a Ph.D. at UCLA where his dissertation and pathfinding tools pioneered chiplet-based waferscale, packageless processor architectures and system-technology co-optimization, work done in collaboration with NVIDIA, Meta, TSMC and Qualcomm. As co-founder and technical lead at multiple startups he has translated that research into product definitions and go-to-market conversations with VCs and customers, now leading architecture at Etched. His background spans deep architecture research (multi-GPU model placement at NVIDIA) to hands-on system integration in optical and embedded projects, reflecting a rare blend of academic rigor and startup execution. Not obvious from the title: he focuses on eliminating system-level integration bottlenecks across the stack, not just on individual chips.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Electrical Engineering, Bachelor's Degree Electrical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Patna
All India Senior School Certificate Sciences, All India Senior School Certificate Sciences at Maa Bharti Senior Secondary School
All India Secondary School Examination Science, All India Secondary School Examination Science at Ramakrishna Mission Vidyalaya
University of California, Los Angeles
Hindi, Bengali, English