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
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Electrical Engineering, Bachelor's Degree, Electrical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Patna
University of California, Los Angeles
Hindi, Bengali, English