Sammy Sidhu

CEO

San Francisco, California, United States11 yrs 6 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

Co-founder and CEO of innovative data processing company.
Over a dozen patents and publications in HPC and AI.
Led self-driving car projects at major tech companies.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in AI and autonomous vehicle technology.

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Skills

Core Skills

Distributed SystemsData Processing

Other Skills

AlgorithmsApache SparkArtificial IntelligenceCC++CUDAComputer VisionDeep LearningGithubHigh Frequency TradingHigh Performance ComputingJavaLaTeXMachine LearningMapReduce

About

I'm the co-founder and CEO at Eventual. My background is in High Performance Computing (HPC) and Deep Learning and I have over a dozen patents/publications in the space. In the past, I have worked on high frequency trading on wall street, medical AI research at Berkeley and self-driving cars at both DeepScale (acquired by Tesla) and Lyft Level 5 (acquired by Toyota). I grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Check out the open source work that we are working on at Eventual (https://www.getdaft.io/)!

Experience

Eventual

CEO, Cofounder

Jan 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Building the infrastructure that makes multimodal data processing as simple as SQL.
Our open source engine Daft handles the reality that modern AI applications need to process petabytes of images, video, and audio - something traditional data engines like Spark completely break down on. Instead of forcing AI engineers to become distributed systems experts, we let them focus on building breakthrough applications.
What we've built:
Processing petabytes daily at Amazon, CloudKitchens, Together AI, Essential AI, and other production Fortune 25 customers
500x memory improvements and 15.7x throughput gains for multimodal workloads
10x performance improvements over existing solutions for multimodal data
Company traction:
$30M raised across 3 rounds, including Series A led by Felicis and Seed led by CRV
Strategic investors: Microsoft (M12), Citi Bank
The multimodal frontier is here. Every software company needs this infrastructure. We're building it.

Python (Programming Language)Distributed SystemsData Processing

Woven planet

Senior Staff Software Engineer

Aug 2021 – Jan 2022 · 5 mos · Palo Alto, California, United States

Left to start my own company!
Lyft Level 5 was acquired by Woven Planet, a holding company of Toyota. I continued much of my prior work here.
Led a research team where we worked on experimental sensor fusion techniques to enable better vision only self driving cars.
Published some of our novel work to NeurIPS’s autonomous driving workshop.

Lyft

2 roles

Senior Staff Software Engineer

Promoted

Mar 2021 – Aug 2021 · 5 mos

[Acquired by Toyota]
Perception Lead in building Self-Driving Cars for Lyft’s Autonomous Vehicle Division (Level 5), mostly dealing with LiDAR and Vision.
Designed and deployed a Machine Learning Platform to handle the needs of over 100 Machine Learning Engineers.
Optimized training and data pipelines for production training workloads saving Lyft over $10M a year in compute and data storage costs.
Built a graph complier to map our self driving stack to an embedded system of heterogenous hardware using a SMT solver.

Staff Engineer, Autonomous Driving

Sep 2019 – Mar 2021 · 1 yr 6 mos

Perception Staff Engineer in the Autonomous Vehicles Division of Lyft

Deepscale

3 roles

Chief Architect

Promoted

Jul 2018 – Sep 2019 · 1 yr 2 mos · Mountain View, California

[Acquired by Tesla]
Joined as part of the founding team which was spun out of the research lab I was part of at UC Berkeley.
Head of Engineering and Research from when company was 4 people to 30 and was acquired by Tesla Autopilot.
Worked on everything needed for developing Autopilot like software, such as designing cutting edge computer vision models, building massive data pipelines and deep learning compliers.
During my time here, I put out over a dozen patents, research papers and industry talks in the field of efficient computer vision.

Engineering Manager

Promoted

Apr 2017 – Aug 2018 · 1 yr 4 mos · Mountain View, California

Perception Systems for Autonomous Vehicles
http://deepscale.ai

Founding Engineer

Aug 2016 – Apr 2017 · 8 mos · Mountain View, California

Uc berkeley

4 roles

Graduate Student Instructor

Aug 2016 – Jan 2017 · 5 mos · Berkeley, CA

Taught CS186/CS286 (Databases) to 600 Students
Wrote a fully functional educational relational database for a semester long project from scratch [Java 15-20k lines]

Graduate Student Researcher

Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 · 1 yr · Berkeley, CA

Working on high performance computing (Scaling GPUs) in applications for Deep Learning.

Graduate Student Instructor

Aug 2015 – Jan 2016 · 5 mos · Berkeley, CA

GSI for CS61A, The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP)
Wrote a Machine Learning MapReduce project in Apache Spark that over 1000 students per semester complete.

Artificial Intelligence Student Researcher

Aug 2014 – Jul 2015 · 11 mos · Berkeley, CA

Working under Stuart Russell on Medical Artificial Intelligence for UCSF Intensive Care Unit (ICU) patients with Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI). Published in the MUCMD medical Journal.