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
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Github Skills (61)
pytorch10
testing10
llama10
typescript10
inference10
tpu10
amd10
llm10
nvidia10
openai10
octree10
cuda10
transformer10
gpt10
langchain9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
brandonpelfrey/SimpleOctree
Jan 2013 - Aug 2017
A simple octree with good commenting for learning how octrees work.
Contributions:6 commits, 1 push, 2 comments in 4 years 7 months
octree
brandonpelfrey/dotnes
Jun 2015 - Jul 2015
NES Emulator written in C#
Contributions:34 commits, 29 pushes, 1 branch in 28 days
csharpnes-emulator
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