Pulkit Desai

CTO

San Francisco, California, United States23 yrs 9 mos experience

AI ML PractitionerHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led embedded software development for multiple Apple devices.
Built autonomous driving software platform at Nvidia.
Pioneered distributed ML compute solutions at Google.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a highly skilled engineer in AI, Embedded Systems, and Autonomous Vehicles.

Contact

pulkitdesai@yahoo.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Distributed Ml ComputeAi AcceleratorsEmbedded SoftwareAutonomous VehiclesFirmware DevelopmentSoc DevelopmentKernel DevelopmentStartup Experience

Other Skills

ARMARM ArchitectureAlgorithmsAssembly LanguageCC (Programming Language)C++Color managementDebuggingDeterministic executionDevice DriversDevice driversDigital Signal ProcessorsDigital signal processingDisplay technology

About

Delivered solutions to complex problems in Consumer Electronics at Apple, Autonomous Vehicles at Nvidia, and Distributed ML Compute at Google. Early employee of Sigmatel, a startup with $4B IPO on Nasdaq, eventually acquired by Freescale. I enjoy fostering employee growth and a sustainable work culture in demanding business environments.

Experience

Google

Engineering Leadership - AI Accelerators

Dec 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 3 mos · Mountain View, California, United States

2024-Present. CoreML. Accelerating Training and Serving of Recommendation and Ranking models in JAX, PyTorch and TensorFlow on TPUs and GPUs
2021-2023 Google Cloud. Distributed ML compute at scale. Efficiently and reliably schedule ultra large scale ML workloads on global fleet of TPUs and GPUs. Horizontal scaling of high throughput, low latency training and serving of LLM models over data center network, with SLO guarantees, enables revolutionary AI applications (e.g. BARD, Gemini)

Distributed ML computeTPUsGPUsJAXPyTorchTensorFlow+1

Nvidia

Senior Manager - Systems Software, Autonomous Vehicles

Dec 2017 – Nov 2021 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Santa Clara, California, United States

Before you ask, yes still holding the stock.
Built the embedded software platform for autonomous driving applications on heterogeneous SoCs and RTOS. Goals are deterministic execution of AV pipeline, parallel computing, high performance, low latency and rapid response with utmost importance to safety.

Embedded software platformHeterogeneous SoCsRTOSDeterministic executionParallel computingEmbedded software+1

Apple

3 roles

Senior Manager - Systems Software

Oct 2015 – Dec 2017 · 2 yrs 2 mos

My team delivered an embedded software/firmware platform for iPhone, Mac, iPad, Apple Watch, AppleTV and HomePod. Used by the HW org for design, bringup, characterization, validation and testing of HW technologies that Apple planned to introduce.
We develop all low level SoC drivers, device drivers for various HW peripherals, memory and power management, co-processor management, digital signal processing and sensor processing.

Embedded softwareFirmware platformLow level SoC driversDevice driversDigital signal processingFirmware development

Engineering Manager - Systems Software

Sep 2013 – Sep 2015 · 2 yrs

Primary focus is SW for Apple SoCs. Bringup on pre-silicon engines like FPGAs and Simulation models. And eventually on silicon+peripherals that make the product.

Software for Apple SoCsPre-silicon enginesFPGAsSimulation modelsEmbedded softwareSoC development

Senior Engineer - iOS Systems Software

Mar 2007 – Aug 2013 · 6 yrs 5 mos

Embedded Software engineering for iPhone, iPad, iPod and AppleTV.
Primarily focussed on kernel drivers (display technology, color management, scaler, rotator, hardware accelerators)
Also granted two US patents.

Embedded software engineeringKernel driversDisplay technologyColor managementEmbedded softwareKernel development

Sigmatel - $4b ipo

Senior Engineer @ startup !

Mar 2002 – Feb 2007 · 4 yrs 11 mos · Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

Early employee, $4B Nasdaq IPO, eventually acquired by Freescale.
We supplied SoCs and SDKs to Apple for iPod Shuffle. Along with many clients like Samsung, Philips, Creative, etc.
Wore multiple hats because team was small. SW engineering for rtos, device drivers, memory/power management, content management, custom UI for MP3 players, supporting proprietary DRM.
Also quite a bit of technical marketing to showcase platform and win businesses.

RTOSDevice driversMemory managementTechnical marketingEmbedded softwareStartup experience