Vasu Garg
Senior Staff Engineer · 7+ years

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Senior Staff Engineer building agentic AI platforms, distributed systems, and developer infrastructure.

I build agentic AI platforms, distributed systems, and developer infrastructure, from multi-agent orchestration and LLM tooling to workload orchestration and fault-tolerant databases.

Best fit: Staff / Senior Staff roles in AI infrastructure, distributed systems, developer platforms, and systems engineering.

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01At a glance

Based in
Bengaluru, India
Experience
7+ years
Role
Senior Staff Engineer

AI / developer platforms

Agentic systems that teams can operate

Multi-agent orchestration, MCP, context engineering, model routing, evaluation, and telemetry.

Distributed systems

Reliable backend architecture

Workload orchestration, distributed databases, event pipelines, and data-intensive services.

Systems / infrastructure engineering

Performance and trust at the systems layer

SIMD-optimized runtimes, zero-trust access control, and hardware-level integrations built for performance and least privilege.

02Impact

Measurable outcomes from platforms and systems shipped across the roles below.

1,000+

developers on GRACE

Agentic developer platform: 104 skills, 11 MCP servers, 82 tools.

3–5x

faster developer workflows

Workflow acceleration delivered by GRACE across engineering teams.

40%

idle capacity cut

ICARUS CI orchestration: dependency-aware scheduling and BFD bin-packing.

85.5%

lower database CPU use

HPE NonStop SQL/MX: re-architected Workload Management Services.

60%

faster dev feedback loop

LYIK: local Azure emulator for a 0-to-1 FastAPI platform.

3.96x

SIMD speedup

Vesta: ternary LLM inference runtime on ARM NEON.

03Career

Progression across AI developer platforms, startup product engineering, and distributed systems.

  1. Synopsys

    Bengaluru, India
    • Senior Staff Engineer, AI Excellence GroupApr 2026 — present
    • Staff Engineer, AI Excellence GroupApr 2024 — Mar 2026

    Built GRACE, an agentic developer platform used by 1,000+ developers that accelerates workflows 3–5x, and ICARUS, a CI orchestration platform that cut idle compute capacity by 90%.

  2. LYIK Technologies

    Bengaluru, India
    • Senior Enterprise EngineerMar 2023 — Apr 2024

    Backend and frontend engineering across FastAPI, React, Azure, Docker, and Terraform, including a local Azure emulator that cut development feedback time by 70%.

  3. Hewlett Packard Enterprise

    Bengaluru, India
    • R&D Software Engineer 2May 2021 — Mar 2023
    • R&D Software Engineer 1Jul 2019 — Apr 2021

    Distributed database systems, networking, and data platforms, including a re-architecture of HPE NonStop SQL/MX workload management that cut database CPU use by 85.5%.

04Projects

AI infrastructure and distributed-systems work. Independent iOS/macOS apps have moved to Apps.

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Platform & Systems Engineering

Forge

Systems
details

A local control plane and usage-driven router for coding agents — orchestrating Claude Code, GitHub Copilot CLI, Codex CLI, Cursor Agent CLI, and Antigravity CLI with intelligent routing, pre-flight budget enforcement, and unified session telemetry.

  • Fastify
  • Ports & Adapters Architecture
  • SQLite
  • TypeScript

Vesta

Systems
details

Zero-dependency C++ CPU inference engine for ternary neural networks ({-1, 0, +1} weights). Bit-packs 64 weights into dual 64-bit bit-planes and executes branchless SIMD kernels hitting up to 30.9 Gop/s on Apple Silicon without GPUs, PyTorch, or BLAS.

  • ARM NEON
  • AVX-512
  • AVX2
  • Bit Manipulation
  • C++
  • Quantization
  • SIMD

MayFly.sh

Systems
detailssource ↗

Zero-trust SSH certificate authority and control plane. Issues short-lived OpenSSH user certificates to authenticated, explicitly authorized engineers instead of distributing long-lived SSH keys, with every issuance and denial recorded in a tamper-evident audit log.

  • Chaos Testing
  • Docker Compose
  • Ed25519
  • HTTPS Enrollment
  • Multi-account Profiles
  • OAuth2 Device Flow
  • OIDC
  • OpenSSH Certificates
  • SO_PEERCRED
  • SQLite
  • Structured Diagnostics
  • TLS
  • TLS 1.3
  • Unix Domain Sockets
  • systemd

ZeroBridge

Systems
detailssource ↗

Hardware-level automation engine and telemetry bridge that turns a Raspberry Pi Zero into a composite USB gadget (Keyboard, Mouse, Media keys, Serial, and Ethernet) for macOS. By interfacing directly at the physical USB layer, it delivers sub-millisecond control, remote lock/wake/unlock, and live host telemetry completely free from macOS accessibility popups and sandbox constraints.

  • AES-256-GCM
  • CDC-ACM / CDC-ECM
  • Go
  • Linux USB Gadget (ConfigFS)
  • P-256 ECDH
  • Rust
  • Swift
  • USB HID
  • WebAuthn / Passkeys
  • WebSockets

Personal Website

Systems
detailsvisit ↗

Production-grade personal platform and portfolio engineered with polyglot microservices (Next.js, Go, FastAPI), containerized with Docker Compose, and reverse-proxied via Caddy and Cloudflare with an ultra-lean memory footprint.

  • Caddy
  • Cloudflare
  • Docker Compose
  • FastAPI
  • Go
  • Low-Footprint Deployment
  • Next.js
  • Polyglot Microservices
  • PostgreSQL
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How I work

01

Systems thinking

Trace a product requirement through its interfaces, data contracts, failure modes, and operating model.

02

Reliability

Design for bounded failure, observable behavior, and recovery rather than an idealized happy path.

03

Developer experience

Make platforms and workflows legible so teams can move quickly with confidence.

04

Security boundaries

Use clear trust boundaries and least privilege, especially where developer tools touch infrastructure.

05Technical focus

Tools and systems I use to build platforms teams can operate.

Languages

  • Python
  • Go
  • C++
  • Rust
  • Java
  • Swift
  • TypeScript

AI / developer platforms

  • Agentic AI
  • MCP
  • Tool orchestration
  • LLM gateways
  • RAG
  • Evaluation / telemetry

Distributed systems / data

  • Backend architecture
  • Workload orchestration
  • Distributed SQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis
  • Kafka

Frontend / product systems

  • React
  • Next.js
  • Svelte
  • Tailwind

Cloud / observability

  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • OpenTelemetry

06Recognition

A few acknowledgements for platform and developer-workflow contributions.

Synopsys Spot Bonus Award

Mar 2026

Agent-driven automation within an LLM-powered developer platform.

Synopsys Innovation and Leadership Conference

Sep 2025

ICARUS ranked in the Top 50 of 1,000+ projects and was shortlisted Top 5 for presentation.

Synopsys Individual Excellence Award

Jul 2025

Individual recognition.

Aruba Recognition Cash Award

Jan 2023

Recognized during work on the Aruba Central telemetry and analytics platform.

HPE Values Recognition

Mar 2022

For "Yes We Can: Push for Better."

HPE SPOT Recognition Cash Award

Nov 2021

Individual contribution recognition.

Mentors students from low-income communities through MentorToGo and has supported nonprofits and schools in India with pro-bono software development and deployment.

07Get in touch

Recruiters and hiring managers: email is the fastest way to reach me. Send the role, the team, and the problem it owns, and I will reply directly.

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