Sean Baxter
Principal Research Scientist at NVIDIA
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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RockstarSean Baxter is a seasoned software engineer with 14 years of experience specializing in compilers, low-level systems, and data-parallel performance. He works at NVIDIA and previously held research and scientific programming roles at D. E. Shaw Research and JPL, blending academic rigor with production engineering. Sean is the author of the open-source circle compiler—adding pattern-matching, typed-enums and for-enum control flow—and has contributed CUDA algorithms and benchmarks to ModernGPU to validate parallel merge performance. Based in New York, he pairs deep algorithmic knowledge with pragmatic benchmarking and test-driven examples to turn research ideas into usable tools.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (10)
cuda10
benchmark10
benchmarking10
c-language10
gpgpu10
gpu10
pattern-matching10
c-programming-language10
compiler-development10
accelerated-computing10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
moderngpu/moderngpu
May 2013 - Nov 2021
Patterns and behaviors for GPU computing
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Performance Engineer
Back-end Developer & Performance EngineerContributions:142 commits, 14 PRs, 83 pushes in 8 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Sean primarily contributed to the `moderngpu` repository by adding and benchmarking a naive parallel merge implementation. Their work included writing CUDA code for parallel merging, creating a benchmark to measure performance, and verifying the results against the STL merge function. Additionally, they addressed a bug related to large keys in the SortedEqualityCount function. The user demonstrates a focus on performance optimization through benchmarking and identifying areas for improvement in GPU computing algorithms.
cudabehaviorsgpu-programminggpu-accelerationgpu
seanbaxter/circle
Feb 2019 - Jan 2023
The compiler is available for download. Get it!
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:331 commits, 3 PRs, 338 pushes in 4 years
Contributions summary:Sean is primarily working on the `circle` compiler project, adding features related to pattern matching. Their commits include implementing a typed-enums section and adding code that enables for-enum statements, which improve the control flow within the compiler. They also added examples for testing variant feature and related debug layout.
compilerc-plus-plusconstexpr
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