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Amir Haghighat

Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, Baseten

  • Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, Baseten1

Amir Haghighat is a co-founder and the chief technology officer of Baseten, which runs inference for open and custom AI models. Haghighat's posts on the Baseten blog include a 2025 write-up, co-authored with Tri Dao, Abu Qader, Bryce Dubayah and Philip Kiely, on optimizing GPT OSS 120B for latency and throughput on launch day.12

At a glance

Current role
Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer
Company
Baseten
Sector
Company
Work listed
1
Sources cited
4
Profile reviewed

Baseten

Haghighat is listed on Baseten's blog as CTO and co-founder. In March 2026, Haghighat announced that Sameer Paranjpye had joined Baseten to lead its engineering organization.13

Haghighat's technical writing for the company includes an August 2025 account of day-zero performance work on GPT OSS 120B, written with Tri Dao, Abu Qader, Bryce Dubayah and Philip Kiely, and a December 2025 post with Alex Ker on infrastructure lessons for running AI in production, covering reliability, speed and developer control.24

Work and contributions

  • GPT OSS 120B performance optimization on Baseten Proprietary product

    First-listed author of Baseten's August 2025 write-up on running GPT OSS 120B at high throughput on NVIDIA GPUs, covering first inference, compatibility bug fixes and model configuration tuning.2

Timeline

  1. Published Baseten's write-up on optimizing GPT OSS 120B inference on NVIDIA GPUs.2
  2. Co-authored "Baseten AI Wrapped", on infrastructure lessons for production AI.4
  3. Announced that Sameer Paranjpye had joined Baseten to lead engineering.3

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References

4 sources · profile reviewed Oct 22, 2026 · data updated Oct 22, 2026

  1. Amir Haghighat — CTO, Co-Founder (Baseten author page)Baseten · Official page · accessed Oct 22, 2026
  2. How we run GPT OSS 120B at 500+ tokens per second on NVIDIA GPUsBaseten · Announcement · published Aug 7, 2025 · accessed Oct 22, 2026
  3. Welcome, Sameer Paranjpye!Baseten · Announcement · published Mar 23, 2026 · accessed Oct 22, 2026
  4. Baseten AI Wrapped: 3 trends to help you build better in 2026Baseten · Announcement · published Dec 22, 2025 · accessed Oct 22, 2026