# Ashwin S.

> Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft AI | Ex-Apple

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/ashwins1

Experienced engineering leader with a proven track record of delivering complex, high-quality projects on time. Driving foundational infrastructure for Microsoft’s AI initiatives including multimedia search, grounding, and large-scale training data pipelines. Deep expertise in infrastructure technologies, spanning hardware accelerators (GPUs, DPUs) and low-level software stacks.

## Work Experience
### Principal Software Engineer @ Microsoft
Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
April 2025 to Present
Transitioned to an individual contributor role to drive foundational technical infrastructure efforts powering Microsoft’s AI products at scale. Driving initiatives in Image Intelligence and Understanding for multimedia search and AI experiences, next-gen grounding APIs for M365, Bing and Copilot, and large scale multimedia data pipelines for multimodal LLM training.

January 2023 to April 2025
Joined through the acquisition of Fungible to advance Azure datacenter efficiency, reliability, and economics in the era of AI using DPU technology. Managed the team that developed the core DPU SDK that enabled partner teams across Azure to build DPU-native services.

### Principal Software Engineer @ Fungible Inc., Acquired by Microsoft
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area
Architected and developed various components of Fungible’s software stack, from the novel DPU optimized OS to control plane micro-services, contributing to breakthrough innovations including the world’s fastest storage cluster, DPU based computational storage, and the True-Fabric network congestion control protocol.

### Performance Architect @ Apple
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
Led cross-functional collaboration between Hardware and Software teams to enhance performance and battery life across multiple generations of iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch by optimizing key multimedia use cases for Apple Silicon SoCs, including A10 through A14 and S3 through S5.


## Education
### Master’s Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology

### Bachelor's Degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/asubramanian31

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Last updated: 2026-04-12