Rodrigo Liang
Co-founder and CEO of SambaNova; former processor engineering leader at Sun Microsystems and Oracle
Rodrigo Liang is a co-founder and the CEO of SambaNova, which builds chips, systems and cloud services for running AI models. Liang has more than two decades of semiconductor engineering experience and previously led processor teams at Sun Microsystems and Oracle that built high-performance processors for enterprise systems.12
Career
Liang began a career at Hewlett-Packard and later led large processor engineering teams at Sun Microsystems and Oracle, where those teams built high-performance processors for enterprise systems.1
SambaNova grew out of the work of Stanford professors Kunle Olukotun and Christopher Ré, and the company describes Liang as the semiconductor executive who completed its founding team, bringing experience moving chips into production data centers. The company was founded in 2017.2
Products and projects
Work
SambaNova platform (external site: sambanova.ai)
Leads the company that set out to rethink AI infrastructure from the silicon up, with a product line spanning SambaCloud, SambaStack and SambaRack.23
Career timeline
2017
Co-founded SambaNova with Stanford professors Kunle Olukotun and Christopher Ré.2
Other documented roles
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- Jeff BolzInference and serving
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- Johannes GäßlerInference and serving
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