Vinay Gangadhar
Principal AI Hardware Architect at Microsoft
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolVinay Gangadhar is a Principal AI Hardware Architect with 12 years of experience designing and delivering cutting-edge chips and accelerator systems for datacenter and cloud AI workloads. He holds a PhD in Computer Architecture from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and blends high-level SoC and microarchitecture design with deep hands-on RTL, verification, and performance modeling. Vinay has taken a chip from startup inception through tapeout and productization, and has since driven next-generation AI chip strategy at Cerebras, Rivos, and now Microsoft’s SPARC team for Azure infrastructure. His expertise spans programmable dataflow accelerators, GPGPU and processor microarchitecture, compiler-hardware co-design, and end-to-end performance correlation across software stacks to transistor-level tradeoffs. Known for pursuing brain-like hardware ambitions, he couples rigorous research instincts with practical product delivery across silicon, software, and systems.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Electrical and Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Wisconsin-MadisonBachelor of Engineering Electronics and Communication, Bachelor of Engineering Electronics and Communication at Visvesvaraya Technological University
English, Kannada, Hindi, Konkani
Stackoverflow
1reputation
0reached
0answers
0questions
Github Skills (3)
cuda7
gpu6
amd5
Github contributions (5)
vinaygangadhar/red_ninjas
Nov 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:9 commits, 28 pushes in 4 months
vinaygangadhar/cs537_projects
Feb 2014 - May 2014
Contributions:37 commits in 3 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.