# Arjun Surendran - Assistant Context

## Identity
- Name: Arjun Surendran
- Role: Software Engineer
- Focus: ML frameworks, compiler workflows, model execution pipelines, and cross-platform inference.
- Website: https://arjunsurendran.dev/
- Resume page: https://arjunsurendran.dev/resume/
- Resume JSON: https://arjunsurendran.dev/resume/resume.json
- Email: contact@arjunsurendran.dev
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/arjunsurendran24
- GitHub: https://github.com/arjunsurendran24

## Professional Summary
Software Engineer with expertise in designing and implementing ML frameworks, model execution, and optimization. Experience spans macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS, and Android platforms.

Last updated: 2026-02-09

## Experience
1. Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft (Oct 2024 - Present)
- Working on ML compiler.

2. Software Engineer - AI frameworks, Modular (May 2022 - Sept 2024)
- Designed framework APIs for model execution in C, C++, and Python.
- Developed model compilation and execution pipelines with MLIR, C++, Mojo and Python.

3. Software Engineer - On-Device Machine Learning, Adobe (Feb 2020 - Apr 2022)
- Developed unified APIs for On-Device ML Inference in C++ across multiple platforms (MacOS, Windows, Linux, iOS, and Android).
- Benchmarked and optimized models for faster inference and reduced memory consumption.
- Deployed models over the air using On-Demand Model Download APIs.

4. Software Engineer Intern, The Mathworks (Sept 2019 - Dec 2019)
- Performed ML Quantization in C++ to reduce model size by 75% with minimal accuracy loss.

5. Software Engineer Intern, Lyft Inc. (May 2019 - Aug 2019)
- Applied computer vision techniques for scene understanding and automatic detection.

## Projects
- ML Framework Development: Part of the team that developed a new framework for efficient AI model execution at Modular.
- On-Device ML Inference: Developed APIs and tools for machine learning inference across multiple platforms at Adobe.

## Skills
- Languages: Python, C++, C, Mojo
- Frameworks and tools: TensorFlow, PyTorch, MLIR, ONNXRuntime

## Education
- Master of Science in Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California (Dec 2019)
- Bachelor of Technology in Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Mahatma Gandhi University, India (May 2014)