
Ashrit Shetty contributed to the ROCm/onnxruntime repository by engineering telemetry-driven observability features, hardware acceleration detection, and performance optimizations for ONNX Runtime on Windows. He enhanced error tracking and session-level tracing, unified telemetry interfaces, and improved auto-execution provider selection diagnostics. Ashrit also optimized model hashing by leveraging metadata and skipping unnecessary computations, reducing startup overhead. His work included expanding ARM64X build target support and refining NPU and GPU detection using the Windows API and C++. Additionally, he improved onboarding documentation for the Olive repository, focusing on reproducible builds and setup guidance. His contributions demonstrated depth in C++, telemetry, and system programming.

Month 2025-07: Delivered telemetry-driven observability enhancements for ONNX Runtime (ROCm/onnxruntime) to improve error visibility, session-level tracing, and auto-EP selection telemetry. Refactored provider logging to unify telemetry interfaces, enabling easier future instrumentation and extensibility. No critical bugs recorded this month; stability work focused on observability. Business value: faster issue triage, data-driven performance/optimization decisions, and improved reliability of dynamic execution provider selection.
Month 2025-07: Delivered telemetry-driven observability enhancements for ONNX Runtime (ROCm/onnxruntime) to improve error visibility, session-level tracing, and auto-EP selection telemetry. Refactored provider logging to unify telemetry interfaces, enabling easier future instrumentation and extensibility. No critical bugs recorded this month; stability work focused on observability. Business value: faster issue triage, data-driven performance/optimization decisions, and improved reliability of dynamic execution provider selection.
Month: 2025-06 Key features delivered: - Telemetry Enhancements for ONNX Runtime on Windows: new logging for model session creation and runtime performance; includes details about model weights and graph hashes to improve monitoring and debugging. Commit 82fddd74e63b38fc0f6786aefa37c871726f263a (Cherry-pick from win-onnxruntime #24957). - Hashing Optimizations for ONNX Models: performance optimizations include skipping hash computation for models containing EPContext nodes; support for metadata-based pre-computed hashes from ONNX metadata to improve efficiency. Commits 64139087cc66c64a921bf4aa44fd31c1e48c5cc2 and e0a4ed1b9af17c17d6d794e7f4c398b9afae7a42. Major bugs fixed: - No major bugs fixed documented for this month; effort focused on feature delivery and performance optimizations. Overall impact and accomplishments: - Enhanced observability and monitoring for Windows deployments, enabling faster debugging and performance analysis of model sessions. - Reduced hashing overhead for models with EPContext nodes and accelerated startup using metadata-based precomputed hashes, improving throughput. - Demonstrated effective cross-repo collaboration and targeted cherry-picks to accelerate feature delivery. Technologies/skills demonstrated: - Windows telemetry instrumentation and ONNX Runtime internals. - EPContext handling and metadata-based hashing optimization. - Performance tuning, cross-repo collaboration, and careful code cherry-picking.
Month: 2025-06 Key features delivered: - Telemetry Enhancements for ONNX Runtime on Windows: new logging for model session creation and runtime performance; includes details about model weights and graph hashes to improve monitoring and debugging. Commit 82fddd74e63b38fc0f6786aefa37c871726f263a (Cherry-pick from win-onnxruntime #24957). - Hashing Optimizations for ONNX Models: performance optimizations include skipping hash computation for models containing EPContext nodes; support for metadata-based pre-computed hashes from ONNX metadata to improve efficiency. Commits 64139087cc66c64a921bf4aa44fd31c1e48c5cc2 and e0a4ed1b9af17c17d6d794e7f4c398b9afae7a42. Major bugs fixed: - No major bugs fixed documented for this month; effort focused on feature delivery and performance optimizations. Overall impact and accomplishments: - Enhanced observability and monitoring for Windows deployments, enabling faster debugging and performance analysis of model sessions. - Reduced hashing overhead for models with EPContext nodes and accelerated startup using metadata-based precomputed hashes, improving throughput. - Demonstrated effective cross-repo collaboration and targeted cherry-picks to accelerate feature delivery. Technologies/skills demonstrated: - Windows telemetry instrumentation and ONNX Runtime internals. - EPContext handling and metadata-based hashing optimization. - Performance tuning, cross-repo collaboration, and careful code cherry-picking.
May 2025 monthly summary for ROCm/onnxruntime: Delivered targeted improvements to hardware acceleration detection and diagnostics, focusing on accuracy, performance, and operability across NPUs and GPUs. No separate bug-fix sprint recorded; the work comprised feature improvements and instrumentation to enhance reliability and observability with tangible business value.
May 2025 monthly summary for ROCm/onnxruntime: Delivered targeted improvements to hardware acceleration detection and diagnostics, focusing on accuracy, performance, and operability across NPUs and GPUs. No separate bug-fix sprint recorded; the work comprised feature improvements and instrumentation to enhance reliability and observability with tangible business value.
Monthly work summary for 2025-04: Olive repo feature delivery focused on Windows Phi3.5 environment/setup and QNN guidance; documentation improvements to reduce setup friction; no major bugs fixed this month; aligned with onboarding and build reproducibility goals.
Monthly work summary for 2025-04: Olive repo feature delivery focused on Windows Phi3.5 environment/setup and QNN guidance; documentation improvements to reduce setup friction; no major bugs fixed this month; aligned with onboarding and build reproducibility goals.
2025-02 Monthly Summary – ROCm/onnxruntime Key features delivered: - QNN EP Support for ARM64X Build Targets: Added ARM64X build targets to enable QNN EP usage. Commit: 2d27d68e23a0115d2e15835bf1f540e56f783e27 ([QNN EP] Add QNN EP to ARM64X build targets (#23635)). Major bugs fixed: - None reported this month for ROCm/onnxruntime. Overall impact and accomplishments: - Expanded platform coverage to ARM64X, enabling QNN EP acceleration and broader deployment options. This aligns with performance and scalability goals and reduces integration friction for ARM-based deployments. Technologies/skills demonstrated: - Build target augmentation for ARM architectures; QNN EP integration concepts; commit-based change tracing; cross-repo collaboration.
2025-02 Monthly Summary – ROCm/onnxruntime Key features delivered: - QNN EP Support for ARM64X Build Targets: Added ARM64X build targets to enable QNN EP usage. Commit: 2d27d68e23a0115d2e15835bf1f540e56f783e27 ([QNN EP] Add QNN EP to ARM64X build targets (#23635)). Major bugs fixed: - None reported this month for ROCm/onnxruntime. Overall impact and accomplishments: - Expanded platform coverage to ARM64X, enabling QNN EP acceleration and broader deployment options. This aligns with performance and scalability goals and reduces integration friction for ARM-based deployments. Technologies/skills demonstrated: - Build target augmentation for ARM architectures; QNN EP integration concepts; commit-based change tracing; cross-repo collaboration.
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