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Jaikumar Ganesh

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Head of Engineering at Anyscale
📍 San Francisco, California, United States

Jaikumar Ganesh is a seasoned technology executive and the Head of Engineering at Anyscale, the company behind the open-source framework Ray. His expertise, built over 20 years, spans AI, large-scale distributed systems, and mobile technology, with career highlights including co-leading Uber AI, founding Ubers Bangalore engineering site, and working on early Android versions at Google.

Beyond his executive role, Jaikumar is passionate about fostering innovation by serving as a technical advisor and mentor to startups and venture capital firms in New Zealand. He draws on his extensive experience from startups to large organizations to guide emerging companies in the tech ecosystem.

Unique fact: He was part of the foundational Android team at Google, contributing to releases from version 1. 0 all the way to KitKat.

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Experience
19 Years
Current Role
Head of Engineering
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
San Francisco, California, United States
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Scaling Machine Learning
Leads engineering for Anyscale and Ray, a premier software for scaling ML systems used by companies like Apple, Netflix, and Uber.
AI Infrastructure
He actively discusses the modern AI stack, promoting concepts like the "PARK stack" (Pytorch, AI models, Ray, Kubernetes) as the new standard for development.
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Career

Work history

11-2021
Head of Engineering
Anyscale
5-2021
Technical Advisor and Mentor - NZ startups and VCs
Various
5-2021 - 10-2021
Advisory Role
Uber
6-2015 - 4-2021
Director of Engineering - Uber AI, Engineering Lead - Uber Growth
Uber
Director of Engineering - Office of the CTO
Uber
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Education
2018 - 2018
Leadership and Strategy
Harvard Business School Online Executive Education
Master of Science (M.S.)
University of Arizona
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