Ahsan Pervaiz
Senior Software Engineer at NVIDIA
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Top SchoolAhsan Pervaiz is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building high-performance networking systems and adaptive computing infrastructure, currently at NVIDIA after a recent role at Enfabrica. His work spans kernel, userspace, SmartNICs, and RDMA networking to squeeze maximum throughput and reliability from modern data planes. With a PhD from the University of Chicago, he blends systems research—publishing on meta-adaptation, adaptive streaming, and interpretable configuration tuning—with hands-on production delivery at Google and other industry teams. He has a demonstrated talent for turning research prototypes into deployable systems that improve performance and tail latency in real workloads. Based in Sunnyvale, he brings a cross-layer perspective that connects OS kernels, NIC firmware, and application-level goals to build self-aware, workload-adaptive platforms. An uncommon strength is his track record of both inventing new adaptation abstractions (FAST, GIL+) and integrating them into operational infrastructure for measurable gains.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Lahore University of Management SciencesDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at University of Chicago
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Github Skills (12)
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
KuntaiDu/dds
Apr 2019 - Sep 2019
Contributions:275 commits in 4 months
ahsanp/tiny-shell
Sep 2018 - Oct 2018
An exercise in understanding and getting comfortable with unix signals
Contributions:10 PRs, 20 pushes, 10 branches in 14 days
unixsignalscomfortableunderstanding
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