Dinakar Raja

CTO

India10 yrs 8 mos experience

AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

Led diverse teams in optimizing AI workloads.
Developed multimillion dollar HPC clusters.
Expert in deep learning software development.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in AI and HPC software development.

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Skills

Core Skills

Deep Learning Software DevelopmentAi OptimizationHpc Software DevelopmentSoftware Architecture

Other Skills

AI workloads optimizationOpen source softwareLeadershipEngineering managementGPU compute softwareDeep LearningHPC cluster managementImage processingC++ optimizationHPC clusterAI FrameworksNumerical modelingProject managementSoftware development toolsStructural analysis

About

My mission is to challenge the status quo and deliver innovative solutions that enhance the performance, efficiency, and usability of AI models and products.

Experience

10 yrs 8 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 8 mos

Average Tenure

Current Experience

Amd

Senior Manager, Deep Learning Software Development

Jan 2019 – Mar 2021 · 2 yrs 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Leadership: I lead a large (~50 FTE) diverse and globally distributed team in multiple continents, countries, and time zones, aiming for one goal: optimize AI workloads with open source software and to challenge the status quo;
Engineering Management: AI primitives and AI kernels. I lead the team responsible for the flagship products of AMD's AI businesses: MIOpen and Composable Kernel, we are developing highly optimized GPU compute software for Deep Learning applications.

AI workloads optimizationOpen source softwareLeadershipEngineering managementDeep Learning Software DevelopmentAI Optimization

Asml

Manager, HPC Software and Compute Infra | Principal Architect

Oct 2015 – Dec 2018 · 3 yrs 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

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Leadership: Founder of HPC group (~10 FTE) at wafer inspection and detection unit; initiator of HPC technical competence center within ASML; functional cluster owner for software ecosystem and compute infra;
Engineering Management: hands on building multimillion dollar large scale heterogeneous HPC cluster (Xeon Gold + NVIDIA P100) for research & development of image processing;
Solution Architect: design HPC Top 500 supercomputer performance and software architect with InfiniBand connection for real-time computer vision and image processing;
Solution Co-Architect: develop heterogeneous and distributed deep learning AI framework infrastructure (CPU Cluster + GPU) for image pattern categorization and wafer defect prediction;
Project management: pattern recognition numerical algorithms and optimization;
Hands on Expertise: C++ code efficiency optimization with SSE/AVX/AVX2/AVX512/FMA.

HPC cluster managementImage processingSoftware architectureC++ optimizationHPC Software DevelopmentSoftware Architecture

Msc software

HPC Software Development Engineer

Jun 2013 – Sep 2015 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Newport Beach, California

Where It All Began: The 10 Original Software Companies” founded in 1963, MSC Software is one of the ten original software companies and the worldwide leader in multi-discipline engineering simulation.
Develop linear and nonlinear solution capabilities of MSC Nastran;
Project Management: High performance numerical modeler and core developer for Nastran, a NASA oriented engineering software for multidisciplinary structural analysis;
Hands on Expertise: High efficiency booster for matrix numerical operations, high-perf BLAS;
Proficiency: Git, Perforce, Confluence and JIRA for Software Development Engineering Flow.

Numerical modelingProject managementSoftware development toolsHPC Software Development