Chaitanya Talnikar
Research Scientist at FlexCompute
Greater Boston United States
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Top SchoolChaitanya Talnikar is a research scientist based in Greater Boston with 14 years of experience at the intersection of applied AI, high-performance computing, and developer tooling. He has held research and engineering roles at FlexCompute, Facebook AI, NVIDIA, and MIT, and combines deep academic training (PhD and MS from MIT) with hands-on experience shipping GPU- and cloud-focused systems. His background spans foundational research, developer enablement, and productionization of AI workloads—bridging lab prototypes and scalable infrastructure. Notably, he has moved between top-tier research labs and industry teams, reflecting a knack for translating cutting-edge ML research into practical, high-performance deployments.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) at IIT Bombay
Github Skills (116)
linux-distribution10
multidimensional-arrays10
firmware10
ubuntu10
pymc10
iso10
arm10
cpp10
wine10
operating-system10
debian10
linux10
flashlight10
gameserver10
u-boot10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
chaitan3/dotfiles
Mar 2015 - Jun 2018
Contributions:241 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 4 months
biographer/biographer.simulator
May 2012 - Aug 2012
Contributions:79 commits in 3 months
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