Vaishak Salin
Software Engineer at Meta
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolVaishak Salin is a software engineer with 12 years of experience building large-scale infrastructure and control plane systems, currently transforming Meta’s infrastructure into a planet-scale, self-service private cloud. Previously at Microsoft he led efforts in Cloud AI & Advanced Systems Engineering to predict and mitigate fleet-wide impacts of hardware and software changes, driving a >200% reduction in annual interruption rate and cutting firmware update windows dramatically. He has a proven track record of performance optimization and automation—delivering 10–30x improvements for Host OS updates and a 400% execution-engine speedup for firmware workflows in Azure GPU clusters. Comfortable across the stack, Vaishak blends distributed systems, ML-driven prediction, and operational engineering to accelerate go-to-market for AI hardware. Based in Redmond with a BTech in Computer Science, he combines deep technical impact at hyperscale with a knack for turning complex operational problems into reliable, automated services. An under-the-radar strength is his consistent focus on outer-loop feedback for firmware and platform teams, enabling faster iteration and safer fleet-wide rollouts.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (BTech) Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (BTech) Computer Science at Manipal Institute of Technology
English, Hindi, Kannada, Tamil, Malayalam
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (32)
workload-automation8
css8
leaflet8
monitoring7
javascript7
ab-testing7
windows7
benchmarking7
linux7
svg7
querydsl7
maps7
elasticsearch6
html6
macos6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
vaishaks/PeptideStatusDetection
Dec 2013 - Jan 2014
Contributions:53 commits in 1 month
pythonclassifierlengthclassifypeptides
vaishaks/ProjectEliteGame
Jan 2023 - Apr 2026
Contributions:3 PRs, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
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