Narasimha Bharadwaj
Senior Hardware Systems Engineer
Newark
Summary
Accomplished Senior Hardware Systems Engineer with 13+ years of experience driving innovation in AI, compute, and storage development and optimization. Proven track record of pioneering standardized development and validation processes, delivering scalable and reliable solutions.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
2
2
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Hardware Systems Engineer, AI Systems and Storage
Meta Platforms Inc
11.2021 - Current
- AI Infrastructure & Performance
- Spearheaded NPI for next-gen RDMA AI Training Cluster, leveraging emerging network and accelerator technologies to drive sustainable competitive advantage against Nvidia
- Established benchmarks for AI platform performance and edge cases ensuring robust system validation
- Data-Driven Insights
- Created data-driven design feedback loop: Identified PCIe config issues (affecting 40% of AI fleet) and implemented process improvements for systemic issues
- Technical Leadership
- Led Technical Events, Panels & AI Work Stream for OCP CMS Group.
- Developed and aligned CXL strategy and roadmap with cross-functional partners.
- Led Architecture of next-gen compute/storage platform with XFN, achieving 25% TCO savings
- Architecture & Design
- Designed and executed experiments to characterize memory expansion latency for AI workloads
- Spearheaded proof-of-concept for Compute Express Link (CXL) memory expansion in storage use cases
- Conducted power savings analysis for HDD storage systems, identifying 15% energy reduction.
HW Engineer 2, HW Engineer 3, MTS HW Engineer, MTS
EBay Inc
06.2015 - 11.2021
- Innovation & Efficiency
- Boosted AI platform performance with XFN: optimized data pipeline yielding 30% training time reduction.
- Developed a distributed data analytics system from concept and spearheaded its NPI, increasing cluster performance by 25% and reducing CAPEX.
- Led eBay's Software Defined Storage proof-of-concept for better performance and TCO.
- Platform engineering
- Spearheaded NPI of 4 generations of ebay AI platforms
- Pioneered commodity qualification and platform validation automation for improved quality and efficiency
- Optimized firmware for AI, compute, storage, and analytics hardware yielding best-in-class performance.
- Cost Savings & Sustainability
- Achieved multi-million dollar cost savings by optimizing storage subsystems with no performance loss
- Improved TCO by 30% with eBay's first non-x86 storage white-box server.
- Published pioneering energy consumption analysis and optimized power allocations/utilization for eBay Marketplace search servers.
Deputy Engineer
Bharat Electronics Ltd, B.E.L
11.2009 - 06.2013
- Designed FPGA high-speed board for in-house disruptive Autonomous Search & Detection system
- Designed and deployed an enhanced modification of video visualization, video tracking system with legacy fire control radar
Education
Master of Science - Electrical Engineering
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 08.2013 - 05.2015
Skills
Project Management
Server development and Validation
Server Architecture
Mentoring
Additional Information
- Initiated and lead Vedanta Series Talks at Meta. We were blessed with speakers such as Swami Sarvapriyananda, Sri M, Vivek ji
- Volunteer at Blossom Foundation, USA
- Volunteer, Social Media and content creator at SEVA Temple, Milpitas
- Odyssey Mentoring partner, provided career guidance for employees at Meta
Timeline
Hardware Systems Engineer, AI Systems and Storage
Meta Platforms Inc
11.2021 - Current
HW Engineer 2, HW Engineer 3, MTS HW Engineer, MTS
EBay Inc
06.2015 - 11.2021
Master of Science - Electrical Engineering
University of Southern California
08.2013 - 05.2015
Deputy Engineer
Bharat Electronics Ltd, B.E.L
11.2009 - 06.2013
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