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Sr Engineering Manager @ Cerebras Systems | LLMs - Training, Inference, Evaluation

About

At Cerebras Systems, my focus has been on cultivating an environment that fosters innovation in AI infrastructure. Our team's success in developing multimodal and inference cloud solutions stems from a deep understanding of data preprocessing and the LM Eval Harness, enabling high-performance AI model training and evaluation. Previously at Confluent, I led a talented team in advancing Confluent Cloud and Platform's capabilities, including Cluster Linking and private networking features. This experience honed my leadership in engineering complex software systems, underpinning my current mission to merge technical acumen with strategic vision to push the boundaries of AI technology. "Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving." — Albert Einstein

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

claude code

mcp

n8n

ollama

huggingface

Cerebras

Work experience

Senior Engineering Manager at Cerebras Systems, Mar 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 6 mos, Bengaluru, At Cerebras Systems, I played a pivotal role in building a high-performing engineering team from scratch and developing critical infrastructure for LLM benchmarking and model quality. I led initiatives to enhance CI processes and established a campus outreach program with IIIT Bangalore. My efforts resulted in a streamlined new hire onboarding process and improved performance management, ensuring we maintained a high talent bar. I lead customisation & Model Delivery (C&MD) team which is responsible for deploying LLM (Llama - 8b/70b/Scout/Maverick, Qwen3-coder/thinking/instruct, OpenAI OSS) in inference mode. The Team ensures high model quality & performance on WSE (Wafer Scale Engines), onboards new evaluations in automated infrastructure. Team heavily deals in LLM evaluations and inference metrics.

Engineering Manager II at Confluent, Nov 2020 - Feb 2024 · 3 yrs 4 mos, India, Leading a team of highly performant and talented software developers. Worked on: Cluster Linking in Confluent Cloud and Confluent Platform Confluent Cloud - v2 peering, private DNS, private links C3 SSO, CP OAuth

Staff Engineer at Nutanix, Dec 2017 - Nov 2020 · 3 yrs, Bengaluru Area, India, - Nutanix Openstack driver development, automation development and testing for Pike and Queen releases, end-to-end, using Python. - AHV (Acropolis Hypervisor) networking, Xi virtual networking, EW firewalls, OVS

Member of Technical Staff at VMware, Dec 2014 - Dec 2017 · 3 yrs 1 mo, 1. Kubernetes & NSX-T integration 2. PCF (Pivotal Cloud Foundry) & NSX-T integration 3. One patent application for enhancement in multipath routing [Granted] 4. Routing/Micro-segmentation on NSXv & NSX-T 5. Earned VCIX-NV (VMware Certified Implementation Expert - Network Virtualization) 6. Multiple spot awards

Software Engineer at Cisco Systems, Aug 2013 - Nov 2014 · 1 yr 4 mos, Bangalore, India, PTP, ASR9k, Agile Software Development

Education

International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore

Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya - JNV