Hari Kumar Rongali
Engineering Leader, AI/ML at Cruise
- Role
- Engineering Leader at Cruise
- Location
- Palo Alto, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Hari Kumar Rongali
Over 15 years of experience in software design and development with strong analytical skills and expertise in multiple programming languages. Excellent problem solver, able to quickly grasp complex concepts, resolves critical issues and suggests solutions for improvement. Effective leadership and communication skills can excel as both individual contributor and team player. Has an appetite for learning and development, can thrive in dynamic and challenging environment.
Experience
Engineering Leader
Dec 2024 — Present · Sunnyvale, CA, US
Leading the ML Compute team, responsible for building ML-Compute-As-A-Service, a scalable and efficient compute platform supporting Cruise AI workloads. This platform provides a unified API and abstraction layer, enabling seamless execution of high-performance distributed batch workloads, including ML training, data processing, and bag processing, with high availability and scalability.Scalable ML Infrastructure: Designed and operated high-performance distributed ML training infrastructure for both research and production environments.Optimized Compute Utilization: Efficiently orchestrates monthly GPU training jobs across ~20K concurrent GPU instances.Multi-GPU Architecture Support: Supports T4, L4, A100, H100 GPUs, ensuring optimal performance for diverse workloads.Ray + PyTorch Ecosystem: Provides native Ray and PyTorch integration, accelerating scalable AI development.Cost-Efficient Compute: Delivers a highly available, scalable, and cost-efficient compute infrastructure to accelerate Cruise AI model development.This role focuses on building and scaling ML compute infrastructure, ensuring efficient orchestration, resource optimization, and cutting-edge AI model execution at scale.
Education
Harvard Business School Online
Certificate in Leadership Principles
University of Southern California
Master of Science, Computer Science
2008 — 2009
National Institute of Technology Warangal
B.Tech, Electrical & Electronics
2002 — 2006
Skills
- Java
- Python
- C
- Algorithms
- Object Oriented Design
- Software Development
- Debugging
- Data Structures
- Multithreading
- Nginx
- Memcached
- Perforce
- Git
- Linux
- Unix
- Eclipse
- Javascript
- Perl
- C++
- Clearcase
- Html
- Xml
- Mysql
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