Vedaanta Agarwalla
Deep Learning Software Engineer at NVIDIA
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVedaanta Agarwalla is a Deep Learning Software Engineer based in California with two years of industry experience focused on computer vision and ML. Currently at NVIDIA, he applies research-grade deep learning techniques to production problems, building on prior quant and software engineering roles at Akuna Capital, Quora, and D. E. Shaw. His background blends a B.Tech from IIT Indore with an MS from UIUC, giving him strong theoretical grounding and practical systems experience. Comfortable moving between model development and engineering constraints, he has a track record of shipping reliable code in high-performance environments. Notably, his path from quantitative trading to GPU-driven AI engineering reflects an uncommon combination of low-latency systems thinking and modern deep learning practice.
2 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science and Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, IndoreUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, Hindi
Github Skills (17)
python9
backend-api9
machine-learning9
gpu9
deep-learning9
backend9
cudnn8
api8
numpy8
neural-network8
tensor7
acceleration7
tensorflow7
autograd7
gpu-acceleration7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
vedaanta/llm.c
May 2024 - May 2024
LLM training in simple, raw C/CUDA
Contributions:4 pushes in 1 day
Lightning-AI/lightning-thunder
Mar 2024 - Mar 2025
Thunder gives you PyTorch models superpowers for training and inference. Unlock out-of-the-box optimizations for performance, memory and parallelism, or roll out your own.
Contributions:20 reviews, 15 PRs, 46 pushes in 11 months
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