Sashi Penta
Principal Software Engineer CoreAI at Microsoft
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSashi Penta is a Principal Software Engineer and AI/ML architect with 20+ years of experience building distributed, multi-cloud systems and enterprise-scale AI platforms that serve 100M+ users. He blends hands-on engineering and founding experience—most recently co-founding 1vite.ai where he led end-to-end AI architecture, FAISS-based retrieval, multi-GPU fine-tuning of CLIP, and production GPU serving—to move research into low-latency production systems. At Coursera and Intel he defined platform-critical ML infrastructure and auto-grading systems that materially impacted revenue and learner experience. Known for influencing multiple cross-functional teams, he sets long-term architectural vision and engineering standards while enabling rapid iteration. Based in the Greater Seattle Area, he combines deep research roots in computer vision with pragmatic system design, often optimizing vector search and GPU inference to shave orders of magnitude off latency.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Science and Engineering, MS, Computer Science and Engineering at International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH)Masters, Computer Science, Masters, Computer Science at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Github Skills (2)
iotivity7
iot3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
sashipenta/talks
May 2017 - Apr 2020
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
sashipenta/Experiments
Feb 2017 - Jul 2018
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
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