AbhijitĀ Paithankar
Principal Engineer at NVIDIA
United States
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Top SchoolAbhijit Paithankar is an AI and HPC engineering tech lead and manager with nearly two decades of experience building scalable distributed systems, GPU compute infrastructure, and cloud-native platforms. He has led teams and shipped products at NVIDIA and Nutanix, co-founded Crave.IO (a cloud-agnostic serverless batch compute platform that achieved six-figure ARR enterprise deals), and helped launch VMware VSAN and other storage innovations. His hands-on systems expertise spans OS internals, virtualization, containers, networking, file systems, and memory management, with fluent programming in Python, Go, C and C++. Abhijit blends product-minded engineering with operational rigor, driving ML/DL infrastructure and HPC clusters from prototype to production at scale. He has a track record of turning low-level kernel and storage work into customer-facing cloud services and thrives on solving the hardest performance and scalability problems. Based in the United States, he pairs entrepreneurial experience with enterprise delivery, often bridging deep technical design and go-to-market outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
H.S.C., H.S.C. at Karnatak High SchoolB.E., Industrial Electronics, B.E., Industrial Electronics at Savitribai Phule Pune UniversityB.E, Industrial Electronics, B.E, Industrial Electronics at Bharti Vidyapeeth College of EngineeringInformation Retrieval and Web Search (CS 276) Coursework, Computer Science, Information Retrieval and Web Search (CS 276) Coursework, Computer Science at Stanford University
Github Skills (17)
transformers10
large-language-models10
transformer-models10
nvidia10
asr9
fault-tolerant9
python8
speaker-recognition8
speech-synthesis8
automatic-speech-recognition8
speech8
machine-translation8
generative-ai7
text-to-speech7
command-line-tool6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
apaithankar/dotvim
Feb 2015 - Jul 2026
Contributions:28 pushes, 3 branches in 11 years 7 months
apaithankar/linux-4.3
Dec 2015 - Aug 2018
Contributions:4 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 8 months
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