Vikas Mehta

Vikas Mehta is a principal software engineer at NVIDIA with over 20 years of experience in large-scale distributed systems, specializing in tier-1 scheduling systems for AI and services platforms. His current focus is on improving researcher productivity through advancements in scheduler design, fleet health, and efficiency for the ML compute platform. A pragmatic generalist, Vikas leads complex cross-functional efforts, driving clarity in ambiguous problem spaces while mentoring teams to scale impact. His work emphasizes customer-centric execution, building hyper-scale systems with extreme focus on usability, architectural simplicity, reliability, and operational excellence.