About

Kutta Srinivasan is an experienced Applied Research Scientist and Software Engineer with over 21 years of relevant experience in the industry. He is currently working as a Senior Principal Software Engineer at Facebook, where he is responsible for the overall architecture of Machine Learning Training services and infrastructure in AI Infrastructure. In his current role, Kutta has designed, built, and contributed to various systems and projects, such as ML/Data workflow execution, fault-tolerant and elastic distributed training via PyTorch, ML/HPC hardware New Product Introduction, and HPC cluster scheduling. He has also helped grow the team from 25 engineers to nearly 300 engineers by recruiting, onboarding, and mentoring numerous senior engineers, managers, and directors. Prior to joining Facebook, Kutta worked at Valve Corporation as a Programmer, where he focused on graphics, engine architecture, performance, core systems, and AI. He also built the first version of the Steam Mobile application and worked on Steam inter-server messaging and permissions model, offline chat for mobile clients, and expanded set of APIs and security model for 3rd party partners to integrate with Steam services. Kutta also led a team of senior engineers, designers, and artists on an unannounced VR game prototype. Before Valve Corporation, Kutta worked at Microsoft as a Development Lead, where he worked on DirectX 9 and 10. He made significant engineering contributions to several first-party games, such as Halo 3, Gears of War, and Crackdown. He was also a technical advisor on several other projects, such as Fable 2, Mass Effect, Lost Odyssey, Halo: ODST, and Halo 4. Kutta contributed to next-gen console hardware planning and design of Xbox 360 system APIs/tools. He was also awarded 4 patents by the USPTO for work on DirectX and Xbox 360 platforms. Kutta was a founding member of 343 Studios, where he set early technical direction and helped hire senior engineers. Kutta's technical skills include Research Scientist, Software Engineer, ML, AI, infra, Mobile, Web, Computer Vision, Deep Learning, NLP, product manager, Pytorch, Senior Software Engineer, iOS, Backend, and Frontend. He is a talented software developer and technical product leader with extensive experience building video games, mobile & web applications, machine learning / AI infrastructure, and distributed systems.