# Sampad Acharya

> Software Engineer @ Microsoft | Low‑Latency & Cache‑Optimized C++ | Performance Benchmarking & Optimization Enthusiast

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/sampad

I am looking for Software Developer (C++) / Low-Latency C++ Developer / Quant Developer positions based in NYC.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Microsoft
Jan 2024 – Present | New York City Metropolitan Area

### Senior Software Developer @ Oracle
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area
Corporate architecture software developer at Diagnostics Engineering Group (DEG), working on making software to test, validate and find faults in hardware components like CPU, Memory, Network, Storage, GPU, etc.

### Software Developer @ Oracle
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area
Corporate architecture software developer at Diagnostics Engineering Group (DEG), working on making software to test, validate and find faults in hardware components like CPU, Memory, Network, Storage, GPU, etc.

### Teaching Assistant @ University of South Florida
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area
Instructed Fundamental of Logic and Design class using Verilog on the Xilinx Artix-7 FPGA board and increased the project critical thinking performance and completeness of my 100 students respectively by 85% and 32.5%

### Research Assistant @ University of South Florida
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area
● Implementing modified Selective Search on Python to replace exhaustive search to find pairwise energy without
accuracy loss which will produce better segmentation to be put into AlexNet-based RCNN
● Implementing Markov Random Field energy minimization method on Python for finding image segmentation using
both unary and pairwise information to reduce energy consumption and increase the accuracy
● Developed a hypothesis applying energy minimization method to improve object recognition accuracy and beat the
state-of-the-art YOLO runtime 0.023 secs which will be added as computer vision toolbox to group’s Nature Journal

### Undergraduate Research Assistant @ Kalyani Government Engineering College
Jan 2013 – Jan 2017 | Kalyani,India
• Mitigated the adverse effect of harmonics by 4.01% for power quality issues using Simulink and PSpice
• Improved the performance parameters evaluation of the diode & rectifiers for modeling in a various load situation

During my Undergrad at Kalyani Government Engineering College, I used to work under the supervision of Dr. Tapas Halder. I have published 3 IEEE conferences with him where I hold the role of the first author in 2 papers. My research was focused on Power Electronics and Power Consumption.


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Electrical and Electronics Engineering
University of South Florida

### Bachelor of Technology - BTech in Electrical Engineering Technologies/Technicians
Kalyani Government Engineering College


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/sampad-acharya-4b61a3159
- Website: https://sampadacharya.substack.com/
- Website: https://github.com/sampad-acharya

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Last updated: 2026-04-05