Lakshminarayanan Ravi

Engineer @ KLA

United States

About

Software Engineer specializing in AI Systems, GPU Acceleration, and HPC. I build performance-critical software across semiconductor inspection and AI infrastructure spanning CUDA computer vision, LLM/RAG systems, and scalable microservices. Interested in GPU compute, generative AI, and large-scale intelligent systems. I value people-first engineering human insight, thoughtful collaboration, and real-world impact.

Experience

  • Software Engineer (AI Systems) at KLA
    Jun 2026 - Present · 2 mos

  • Northeastern University (8 mos)
    • Teaching Assistant - DAMG 7374 LLM w/ Knowledge Graph DB
      Jan 2026 - Apr 2026 · 4 mos

    • Teaching Assistant - CSYE 7374 Intro AI Agent Infrastructure
      Sep 2025 - Dec 2025 · 4 mos

      1. Led weekly lab sessions throughout the semester by running hands on coding workshops where students built modern LLM systems including transformer based pipelines and agentic architectures while guiding implementation debugging and real world engineering practices 2. Delivered a guest lecture on multi agent collaboration explaining how autonomous agents coordinate make decisions and create tools to solve complex tasks and showing how this research connects to practical systems and publishable outcomes

  • CUDA Engineer intern at KLA
    May 2025 - Aug 2025 · 4 mos

    1. Achieved 15× performance improvement in pattern alignment system (600ms → 50ms) by architecting and implementing CUDA-accelerated solution leveraging GPU parallel processing; developed custom cross-correlation and phase correlation algorithms with advanced image processing pipeline including bilateral filtering and parabolic interpolation for sub-pixel accuracy 2. Designed high-performance memory management framework with CUDA pinned memory pools and asynchronous transfer pipelines, delivering 3× faster data throughput compared to traditional CPU-GPU transfer methods; established reusable architecture blueprint for migrating compute-intensive algorithms to GPU, enabling team-wide adoption of parallel processing solutions Division: eBeam

  • KLA India ()
    • Software Engineer - 2
      Jul 2023 - Aug 2024 · 1 yr 2 mos

      1. At KLA’s Fast Division, Developed a state visualizer for log traces, automating test case generation and verification with state machines, reducing debugging time by 60%. Engineered a high-performance C++/C# WPF library for the CFS application, resolving 25+ critical bugs and enhancing processing speed by 20%, positively impacting TSMC and Samsung fabrication 2. Built an Information Retrieval system using Graphs and RAG, boosting ticket resolution speed by 50%, enhancing accuracy with fine-tuned embeddings, streamlining ticketing and issue tracking across teams, earned Special Mention at the KLA 2024 Hackathon Division: FaST

    • Software Engineer Intern
      Jan 2023 - Jun 2023 · 6 mos

      1. Redesigned and revamped an old configuration system, switching the UI from MFC C++ to WPF C# and the backend from COM to gRPC service, thereby improving performance and functionality. 2. Designed project utilizing both MVVM and Plugin architecture patterns to enhance scalability. Division: FaST

  • CodeChef Chapter President at CodeChef PSG Chapter
    Jan 2022 - May 2023 · 1 yr 5 mos

    1. Served as President for the CodeChef PSG Chapter and conducted successful events. 2. It helped improving the coding culture and increased our college participation by double on CodeChef and Other Competitive Programming platform.