# Viren S.

> Software Engineer

Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/virens

## Work Experience
### Founding Engineer @ Iris
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Principal Machine Learning Engineer @ SambaNova Systems
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area
Worked on training LLMs, recommendation models, and vision models on large scale deployments of Sambanova's custom hardware.

### Software Engineer, Minibot @ Cornell Cup Robotics
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021

### Software Team Lead, Minibot @ Cornell Cup Robotics
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Ithaca, New York Area
Led team to build a distributed application to interface with MiniBot, an educational robot to teach students how to code.  This included:
•Web-based GUI in React to enable users to program MiniBot with drag-and-drop blocks. 
•Using Flask and Tornado to build a centralized server that interfaced with both the MiniBot and the WebGUI. 
•Using April Tag vision libraries to detect the MiniBot using overhead cameras.
•Working closely with Electrical and Mechanical teams to integrate and build an end-to-end MiniBot system.

### Software Engineer, Minibot @ Cornell Cup Robotics
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019
• Built a Unity App to interface with and control robots that could play Laser Tag.

### Software Engineer, C1C0 @ Cornell Cup Robotics
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Ithaca, New York Area
• Implemented speech recognition and sentiment analysis for a Star Wars R2D2 droid built by our team.

### Machine Learning Intern @ SambaNova Systems
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
Recommendation Models

### Software Engineering Intern @ Facebook
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Menlo Park
Intern on the Ads Ranking Machine Learning Infra team.
• Built tool to retrain ML models with new training data.
• Implemented a system to check the existence and validity
of training data and evaluation data for the ML models.
• Implemented a resource usage tool to monitor and profile
the machine learning training runs.

### Course Staff - OO Design and Data Structs Honors (CS 2112) @ Cornell University
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018
• Teaching Consultant for CS 2112, OO Prog and Data Structures (Honors)
• Graded assignments, held office hours, and helped build autograder to test programming assignments.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Parallel Wireless
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Nashua, New Hampshire
Built automated test infrastructure to help the QA engineers effectively test the self-organizing
network features of the Parallel Wireless products. Also built automated tools to monitor and parse system logs, which further aided the test team.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
Cornell University

### GEAR Innovative International School

### High School
The International School of Bangalore


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/viren-s-78a4a8104

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Source: https://flows.cv/virens
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Last updated: 2026-04-05