3x founder

Saurabh Srivastava

Principal Scientist @ Nemotron NVIDIA, prev Head of Code @ Essential AI

Founder

Warpdrive by Synthetic Minds· Summer 2018 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States

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2026Nemotron, Advanced Deep Learning Research· NVIDIA

Founder · since 2014

Company

NVIDIA

Role

Nemotron, Advanced Deep Learning Research

current

Stage

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no public source

Raised

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no public source

Based

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Founder / co-founder — the company's markEmployee / research role

Source: LinkedIn work history

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Warpdrive by Synthetic Minds

From screen recordings to desktop automations using program synthesis

Summer 2018

Experience

Career

NVIDIA
Nemotron, Advanced Deep Learning Research · 2026 – Present
2026
Essential AI
Head of Research, Code Intelligence · 2024 – 2026
2024
Consequent AI
Founder
Founder · 2023 – 2024
2023
Warpdrive
Founder
Founder, CEO · San Francisco Bay Area · 2017 – 2022
2017
20n
Founder
Founder, CEO · San Francisco Bay Area · 2014 – 2017
2014
UC Berkeley
Assistant Research Engineer, Computer Science · 2012 – 2014
2012
UC Berkeley
Postdoctoral Researcher, Computer Science · 2010 – 2012
2010
University of Maryland
PhD, Computer Science · 2003 – 2010
2003
Microsoft
Researcher · Bangalore, India · 2008
2008
Microsoft
Researcher · Redmond · 2007
2007
VMware
Software Engineering · 2005
2005
VMware
Software Engineering · 2004
2004
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
Researcher · Chennai Area, India · 2003
2003
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
Researcher · 2002
2002

Bio

Work on building code capabilities for Nemotron at NVIDIA. Primarily focus is on pre-training, evals and data; some post-training. Previously: * Head of Code Research @ Essential AI (Ashish Vaswani's co) * YC W15 and S18: Code synthesis applied to bio and desktop automations respectively. * PhD / Postdoc: Code synthesis using theorem provers.