Brandon Pelfrey
Senior Software Engineer at NVIDIA
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolBrandon Pelfrey is a senior software engineer with 14 years of experience building high-performance systems across graphics, distributed storage, and low-level optimization. He has shipped performance-critical features and tooling at major tech companies including NVIDIA, Apple (Vision Pro), Meta, HPE, and AWS, often focusing on rendering, GPU/kernel tuning, emulation, and tracing. Brandon combines deep computer architecture and applied mathematics knowledge with practical systems experience—he’s built JITs, performance tracers, physics simulators, and an in-progress custom GPU (SystemVerilog, firmware, SDKs, emulators). He favors product decisions driven by customer value balanced against long-term supportability, and he obsessively pursues extracting more performance from modern hardware. Based in Seattle, he brings both research-grade rigor from his Clemson MS and hands-on delivery at scale, making him a strong bridge between low-level optimization and product engineering. A less obvious thread in his career is consistent cross-domain fluency—moving between graphics, distributed systems, and hardware design—so he’s comfortable solving problems end-to-end from silicon to SDK.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Computer Science, Master of Science (MS), Computer Science at Clemson University
Chinese
Stackoverflow
2,539reputation
286kreached
7answers
10questions
Github Skills (37)
bounding10
hierarchy10
octree10
testing9
api9
ray9
animation8
javascript7
imgui7
graphical-user-interface7
game-development7
cpp7
openmp6
directx6
flash6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
brandonpelfrey/dotnes
Jun 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:34 commits, 29 pushes, 1 branch in 28 days
brandonpelfrey/Fast-BVH
Apr 2012 - Mar 2020
A Simple, Optimized Bounding Volume Hierarchy for Ray/Object Intersection Testing
Contributions:20 commits, 9 PRs, 10 pushes in 8 years
rayboundingtestingvolumeoptimized
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