Praneet Joshi
San Jose, CA
Business economics and electrical engineering at UC Davis. I spent this summer as a hardware lab intern at Astera Labs — building PCIe fabric switch boards, assembling liquid-cooled sockets, and sitting on the buyer side of a vendor evaluation. I want to sell AI infrastructure, not build it.
Where I am
- Now
- Customer Acquisition Intern at ELREPCO — Sept–Dec 2026
- Before
- Hardware Lab Intern at Astera Labs — Jun–Sept 2026
- Studying
- Business economics and electrical engineering at UC Davis
- Looking for
- Summer 2027 GTM, business development, and inside sales roles in AI infrastructure
Projects
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What's actually in an AI rack — and who sells itin progress
A layer-by-layer walk through a modern AI training rack, and the vendor competing at each layer. Written from the lab side.
- AI infrastructure
- hardware
- market map
A go-to-market plan for Etchedin progress
Who buys a transformer ASIC, what the wedge against NVIDIA looks like, and a target account list with reasoning.
- GTM
- AI infrastructure
- semiconductors
Notes from the buyer sidein progress
I ran a vendor evaluation as an intern. Here is what the sellers did well, what lost them the deal, and what I would steal.
- sales
- vendor evaluation
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