Summary
Vikash Rai is a Staff Software Developer with 10 years of experience building large-scale ML/AI and cloud-native infrastructure, currently focused on GPU infrastructure for LLM training and inference at a stealth AI startup. He has a strong track record at Meta, VMware, and Microsoft designing distributed control planes, Kubernetes-as-a-Service features, and large-scale data processing systems. Vikash blends deep systems-level knowledge of Kubernetes, NVIDIA CUDA and custom kernels with practical product delivery across cloud and on-prem environments. He’s comfortable moving between low-level kernel and node health work and higher-level cluster orchestration, often surfacing reliability and performance gains that aren’t obvious to product teams. Based in Bellevue, WA, he combines a curiosity-driven approach to problem solving with hands-on expertise in ML/AI infrastructure.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and Science