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Meet Soumith Chintala: Indian-origin techie rejected by 12 US universities, now CTO of ‘Thinking Machines Lab’

Soumith Chintala’s remarkable ascent from countless university and job rejections to co-creating PyTorch and reaching the role of VP at Meta is a powerful story of determination and perseverance. Soumith Chintala’s journey from repeated academic and professional rejection to becoming one of the most influential figures in artificial intelligence has struck for many daydreaming techies, […]

Indian-origin techie at centre of anti-India hate hackathon says he has landed his dream job at xAI | World News

Vineeth Sendilraj, a 19-year-old Indian-origin computer science student at Georgia Tech, has announced that he has joined Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI as an engineer, describing the move as a “full circle moment”. His announcement comes days after he went viral following a widely shared clip from xAI’s December 2025 hackathon.Sendilraj first drew attention […]

Meet Kalyani Ramadurgam: Indian-origin techie who went from helping Apple fight terrorism to building her own startup

Kalyani Ramadurgam has made waves as a Forbes 30 Under 30 innovator with her co-foundation of Kobalt Labs, aiming to transform the landscape of financial compliance. Frustrated by the inefficiencies she observed at Apple, she pioneered AI-driven tools designed to streamline the partner vetting process for banks. Before starting her own company, Kalyani Ramadurgam worked […]

‘Indians dogpiled him’: US techie behind ‘imagine the smell’ comments opens up amid major outrage

Nik Pash, the US techie who drew the wrath of social media after making an apparent comment on Indian techies that they are smelly, has been fired from his company, Cline. Cline founder and CEO Saoud Rizwan initially came to Nik’s defence, asserting that the comment was a generic comment on how jampacked hackathon rooms […]

US techie comes under fire for anti-Indian ‘imagine the smell’ comment; his boss says it’s OK

Nik Pash, the AI head of Cline, drew massive flak after he made an unsavory comment on a photo of apparently Indian coders. But his company head came to his rescue and explained that social media users took his comment out of context and that there was nothing racist about what Nick wrote. But the […]

‘Not anymore’: Amazon techie says he was obsessed with US, green card; rejected twice for H-1B

Amazon techie says American dream is not staying in America, but living life freely without obsessing over visa. The story of Wen-Hsing Huang, a 25-year-old engineer working at Amazon, can bring closure to many struggling with the present H-1B chaos. As told to Business Insider, Huang’s experience of working in the US, living a life […]

‘My experience with H-1B racism’: US techie recalls great interviews followed by rejection, ‘Indians feel entitled to work here’

US techie’s rant against H-1B goes viral on Teamblind. A US techie shared the experience of giving interviews for Meta and Amazon and getting rejected at both, as there were majorly Indians on the interview board. Calling it H-1B racism, the techie wrote on Teamblind: “So before any H1Bs say that Americans are racist, please […]

‘Used to work late into night’: Indian-origin Microsoft techie Pratik Pandey dead at Silicon Valley campus

35-year-old Indian techie Pratik Pandey found dead in Silicon Valley campus. Pratik Pandey, a 35-year-old software engineer working for Microsoft, was found dead in the office. Bloomberg reported that Pandey badged into the office on the evening of August 19 and was found dead in the early hours of the following morning — citing a […]

Indian techie Harsha Kikkeri’s younger son only surviving member of family after murder-suicide tragedy in US

Harshavardhana Kikkeri was a celebrated techie who once met Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a Digital India summit. The younger son of Indian techie Harshavardhana S Kikkeri was not at home when he reportedly shot and killed his wife and his elder son and then shot himself in a tragedy that took place in Seattle’s […]

Indian techie kills wife, son, then shoots himself in US home

An Indian-origin tech entrepreneur from Mysuru allegedly shot and killed his wife and one of his sons before taking his own life at their home in Newcastle, Washington, on April 24.The victims have been identified as Harshavardhana S Kikkeri, 57, his wife Shwetha Panyam, 44, and their 14-year-old son. The family had been living in […]