Ankur Verma
Principal Software Engineer at NVIDIA
Issaquah, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAnkur Verma is a Principal Software Engineer with over 8 years of experience building high-performance systems and distributed runtimes, now at NVIDIA after leading Microsoft’s distributed runtime and collectives team for the MAIA-100 AI accelerator. He combines deep C++ and OS-level expertise with practical experience integrating collective libraries into ML frameworks like PyTorch and ONNX Runtime, driving both algorithmic and systems-level performance. At Microsoft he moved from core Windows Store and app development into accelerator-focused infrastructure, blending product-driven engineering with low-level optimization. An active contributor to the widely used microsoft/vcpkg C++ package manager, he has hands-on experience fixing complex static build and CI issues across platforms. Based in Issaquah, WA and an IIT Madras alumnus, he’s known for tackling cross-cutting problems that bridge build systems, distributed algorithms, and production ML runtimes.
8 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Github Skills (12)
windows10
vcpkg10
c-language10
package-manager10
cmake10
cprogramming-language10
build-automation10
cicd9
c119
lib9
c179
cpp8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/vcpkg
Jul 2020 - Jan 2023
C++ Library Manager for Windows, Linux, and MacOS
Role in this project:
Backend Engineer
Backend EngineerContributions:40 reviews, 12 commits, 23 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Ankur primarily contributed to fixing build issues, particularly related to static builds, for various libraries managed by vcpkg. Their work involved modifying CMake files, portfiles, and build scripts to ensure compatibility with different build configurations (static/dynamic, different Windows build configurations). The user also updated the CI/CD pipeline and baseline configurations to incorporate and test the new build configurations. This includes adjustments related to dependencies and handling different Windows compilation scenarios.
c-plus-plussetuptoolspackage-managermacoscplusplus
ankurvdev/papertrail
Jul 2023 - Oct 2024
Document Management and Search
Contributions:31 PRs, 94 pushes, 37 branches in 1 year 3 months
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