Nikhil Palaskar

Nikhil Palaskar is a senior software engineer and a member of Performance and Scale Engineering at Red Hat. Nikhil's current focus is primarily on serving LLMs for inference and performance optimizing their deployments in Red Hat Openshift AI and Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI environments. Nikhil is also actively engaged in performance experimentation and tuning of running large language models on AMD hardware with the ROCm software stack. Previously he has also worked on building a Benchmarking and Performance Analysis Framework (Pbench).

Nikhil's professional interests revolve around AI/ML and deep learning, statistics, performance engineering, and application profiling. When he is not working he likes to go on hikes.