Sarunas Kalade
Member Of Technical Staff at AMD
Denver Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSarunas Kalade is a systems-level software and research engineer with eight years of experience building and scaling embedded ML and RF solutions, currently advancing accelerated AI inference, LLMs, and robotics at AMD Research. He has deep hands-on expertise with Xilinx platforms—leading DPU-PYNQ maintenance and expanding board support from 3 to 20 devices—and maintains OS releases for PYNQ-Linux across ARM32/ARM64. His background spans FPGA bring-up, model deployment on DPUs, and build/devops work (including meaningful contributions to the popular PYNQ project), reflecting a blend of low-level firmware, tooling, and release engineering. A PhD-trained electrical engineer who began in academia and industry internships, he brings a rare mix of research rigour and production-focused delivery for edge AI and RFSoC systems.
8 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electronic and Electrical Engineering at University of StrathclydeKaunas "Ausros" Gymnasium, Lithuania
English, Lithuanian, German
Github Skills (6)
python10
build-automation10
devops9
vivado9
yocto8
windowsrt8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Xilinx/PYNQ
Feb 2022 - Oct 2022
Python Productivity for ZYNQ
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:14 commits, 14 PRs, 4 pushes in 8 months
Contributions summary:Sarunas contributed to bug fixes and code improvements within the `pynq` repository. Their work involved addressing typo errors in parsing, upgrading board build scripts to the Vivado 2022.1 tools, and updating meta-user recipes. They also modified build scripts and package configurations, indicating involvement in the build and deployment processes. Furthermore, they were responsible for renaming and splitting packages.
productivityzynqpythonpynq
skalade/PYNQ
Feb 2022 - Jun 2024
Python Productivity for ZYNQ
Contributions:2 PRs, 55 pushes, 18 branches in 2 years 4 months
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