Ashu
I’m a distributed systems engineer building real-time payments infrastructure at Root, where I was the first engineer. Before that I was a founding engineer at Gamma (acquired by Palo Alto Networks). In the past I’ve also done research on reconstructing what people see from brain activity, and co-authored MindEye2 (ICML 2024). Lately I’m working on Suvin and Graft.
Outside of work I boulder and watch a lot of movies. I also keep a bookshelf of what I’ve been reading.
Work
- Now Graft, post-training language models compressed from 16-bit to 1-bit and ternary weights using SFT, DPO and GRPO to recover the tool-calling ability that compression costs them
- Now Suvin, an agentic platform for everything after code is written (review, testing, deploys, observability and incident fixes) with the orchestrator in the cloud and agents inside the user’s own network
- 2024 to now Root, founding engineer and engineering lead
- 2021 to 2024 Palo Alto Networks, Senior Staff Engineer
- 2021 Gamma, founding engineer (acquired by Palo Alto Networks)
Research
- MedARC MindEye2 (ICML 2024), reconstructing images people see from fMRI
- Genzel Lab Unsupervised sleep staging in mice from EEG and EMG signals
- Neuromatch Multi-agent reinforcement learning on predators and prey, each trying to survive and grow