# Sedai: Blog Authors Full content of 5 pages from https://sedai.io/blog/author. Each entry starts with the page title and its source URL. Every full-content file is listed in https://sedai.io/llms.txt. --- # Pooja Malik Source: https://sedai.io/blog/author/pooja-malik Pooja Malik is a Distinguished Engineer at Sedai. Read about her expertise, experience, and mission. Pooja Malik is a Distinguished Engineer at Sedai, where she leads the work to make Kubernetes fully self-managing across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. Since joining Sedai in 2021, she has shaped its core platform architecture and led its work on GPU optimization, autoscaling infrastructure, and observability pipelines. She is a recognized expert in GPU optimization for AI and ML workloads, with deep experience in DCGM telemetry, MIG partitioning, and Dynamic Resource Allocation. Pooja Malik is a Distinguished Engineer at Sedai, where she leads the work to make Kubernetes fully self-managing across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. Since joining Sedai in 2021, she has shaped its core platform architecture and led its work on GPU optimization, autoscaling infrastructure, and observability pipelines. She is a recognized expert in GPU optimization for AI and ML workloads, with deep experience in DCGM telemetry, MIG partitioning, and Dynamic Resource Allocation. She also brings deep expertise in Kubernetes autoscaling (HPA, VPA, and KEDA) and large-scale observability with Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, Grafana, and Loki. Before Sedai, Pooja spent seven years at Salesforce as a Lead Software Engineer, where she helped make cloud infrastructure and database systems self-driving at scale. Earlier, she built high-scale systems at Walmart eCommerce, Visa, and E\*Trade Financial. --- # Nikhil Gopinath Kurup Source: https://sedai.io/blog/author/nikhil-gopinath-kurup Nikhil Gopinath Kurup is the SVP of Engineering Data & ML at Sedai. Read about his expertise, experience, and mission. Nikhil Gopinath Kurup is Sr. Vice President of Machine Learning at Sedai. As a pioneer of autonomous cloud optimization, Nikhil played a critical role in building Sedai’s proprietary machine learning technology, which enables customers to dramatically reduce their cloud costs and prevent availability issues. He is a leading expert on both the frontier of AI/ML as well as modern cloud services, across AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. Nikhil partners with companies like Palo Alto Networks, HP, and GSK to optimize their infrastructure. Nikhil Gopinath Kurup is Sr. Vice President of Machine Learning at Sedai. As a pioneer of autonomous cloud optimization, Nikhil played a critical role in building Sedai’s proprietary machine learning technology, which enables customers to dramatically reduce their cloud costs and prevent availability issues. He is a leading expert on both the frontier of AI/ML as well as modern cloud services, across AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. Nikhil partners with companies like Palo Alto Networks, HP, and GSK to optimize their infrastructure. Before Sedai, Nikhil gained broad engineering and data science experience at [H20.ai](http://h20.ai), [Kore.ai](http://kore.ai), and Teradata. He earned a Master’s Degree in Information and Data Science from UC Berkeley. --- # Suresh Mathew Source: https://sedai.io/blog/author/suresh-mathew Suresh Mathew is the CEO & Founder of Sedai. Read about his expertise, experience, and mission. Suresh Mathew is the CEO & Founder of Sedai. A pioneer of autonomous cloud optimization, Suresh works with Fortune 500 companies and government agencies to optimize their cloud & AI infrastructure. Under Suresh’s leadership, Sedai has expanded to a team of 100+ employees around the globe, received eight U.S. patents on its technology, and secured $38 million in funding from top investment firms. Suresh Mathew is the CEO & Founder of Sedai. As a key architect at PayPal, Suresh built the world’s first autonomous system for optimizing the cloud. Now at Sedai, he works with Fortune 500 companies and government agencies to optimize their cloud & AI infrastructure, using Sedai’s autonomous platform. Under Suresh’s leadership, Sedai has expanded to a team of 100+ employees around the globe, received eight U.S. patents on its technology, and secured funding from top investment firms. Suresh brings more than two decades of engineering and leadership experience, including at Oracle, Nokia, and PayPal. His mission is to eliminate toil for his fellow engineers, so they can focus on the most meaningful work. - Cloud optimization - Kubernetes - AI Strategy - Autonomous systems --- # Hari Chandrasekhar Source: https://sedai.io/blog/author/hari-chandrasekhar Vice President Of Engineering Core at Sedai --- # Shankar Jothi Source: https://sedai.io/blog/author/shankar-jothi VP of Engineering at Sedai, ML Interests: applied ml and distributed systems