Vinay Mehta Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, Ca, Us

withrails .comWe write software for generating invoices on behalf of third party logistics companies. I write a mixture of scripting languages, act as lead for the Python-{FastAPI, Pydantic, SQLAlchemy} server that runs our front end, and am generally responsible for mapping customer data to schemas and business processes to functions.

San Jose, California, Us

Led the launch of a GPU laptop built by RAZER and marketed towards deep learning engineers. Extremely successful product launch resulting in 3x sales, major increase in services revenue, and first coverage for the company by major tech news outlets.Ran a quarter long project to develop messaging. Munged data with pandas from unnormalized SQL databases to generate product line’s lifetime order history and customer base. Targeted those customers with a persona survey and conducted follow- up interviews to understand customer usage patterns. Identified opportunity to update pricing strategy by reducing hardware price, introducing support plans, and increasing the margins on factory dual-boot installs.Ran cross-functional groups across the company to beta test production validation hardware and OS images, design and implement a new brand direction (landing page and packaging), proactively identify and address support issues, and establish manufacturing and shipping procedures.Ultimately recognized that the technical aspects of my work were the most fulfilling, and that product marketing was not going to be a good long-term fit for me.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Interdisciplinary role leading marketing for the InferX chip and board product line of convolutional neural network accelerators.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Rose to directly responsible individual in the team that designed, built, and verified the next-generation compute hardware for Lyft’s self driving system.Demonstrated an alternate C++ inference pipeline with on-GPU HEVC decoding (NVDEC), quantized FP16 models (TensorRT), and concurrent execution of batch=1 inferences on a single GPU (Triton Inference). Resulted in adoption of TensorRT by the perception team, HEVC encoding by the camera team, and initiated a push by the systems engineering team to create requirements allowing for allocating multiple cameras to a single GPU.Explored different system architectures balancing fault tolerance, reliability, and performance goals with mass, volume, thermal, and cost constraints; achieved cross team consensus from mechanical, thermal, systems, and product teams.Drove product lifecycle from RFQ and vendor selection, to final integration ofvalidated and verified system into vehicle.Directly managed two summer interns evaluating inference accelerators.

New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Sponsored by Hod Lipson's lab, Ruijia Yang and I co-lead a team for the International Aerial Robotics Competition.

New York, Ny, Us

Hawthorne, California, Us

As part of the Engineering Data Systems group, I took over maintenance and development of the change notice process (like a git merge commit for CAD parts). I also built a backend using the Teamcenter Java SDK to allow the computers in the additive manufacturing lab to directly query and download files from the parts repository network, thereby allowing design and production engineers to remotely initiate 3D prints.

New York, New York, Us

I provided engineering experience and guidance to students, acted as a liaison to the faculty, and handled administrative operations for the team. I helped in two consecutive transitions of captains, and worked to implement an underclassmen to leadership pipeline.

New York, Ny, Us

I created a model to determine the ideal location to set up a value-added honeycomb processing facility in the US for North American end-users. The company did actually set up a facility in Alabama based on the recommendation from my analysis: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20160503005025/en/Argosy-Opens-New-Facility-to-Expand-Honeycomb-Core-Market/By aggregating and analyzing a variety of factors (wages from the Bureau of Labor Statistics for a suitable worker population, commercial real estate values, distances and shipping costs to existing customers, utilities, etc.), I determined optimal ZIP codes for the facility.

New York, Ny, Us

Utilizing a novel device structure, the group I worked in investigated methods of fabricating high frequency, high quality on-chip resonators for potential use in communications circuits. I also assisted in the design and prototyping of an in-house sputtering deposition system to manufacture test samples.

New York, Ny, Us

Semi-guided research to create ultra-low cost concrete for use in developing countries by employing recycled concrete rubble as aggregate for new concrete. I mixed and cast test mixtures, and performed ASTM strength and malleability tests on the concrete samples.

New York, Ny, Us

I worked as a lab intern and assisted research into nanofibers and liposomes to develop organic tissue graft methods and improved growth agents.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Engineering

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