Brian Raf
Senior Hardware Engineer at NVIDIA
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Raf is a Senior Hardware Engineer based in Portland, Oregon, with a long-standing career in high-performance semiconductor design spanning roles at Sun Microsystems, AMD, and NVIDIA. He brings deep expertise in chip architecture and hardware engineering, progressing from MTS to Principal Design Engineer and now senior-level leadership at NVIDIA. Educated at the University of Michigan (B.S.E., M.S.E.), he pairs strong academic foundations with decades of practical experience driving complex silicon projects. Though his public GitHub footprint is minimal, his career path suggests a focus on high-impact, behind-the-scenes engineering contributions to industry-leading processors and systems. Known for sustained commitment to hardware excellence, he combines broad historical perspective from legacy systems with current GPU and accelerator development practices.
4 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
M.S.E., M.S.E. at University of Michigan
Github Skills (24)
machine-learning10
inference10
java10
deep-learning10
performance-analysis10
gpu10
cpp10
cli10
reinforcement-learning9
scala9
python9
llm9
llama9
go9
grpc9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
triton-inference-server/model_analyzer
Nov 2021 - Jan 2023
Triton Model Analyzer is a CLI tool to help with better understanding of the compute and memory requirements of the Triton Inference Server models.
Contributions:892 reviews, 500 commits, 377 PRs in 1 year 2 months
cliinferencedeep-learninggpuperformance-analysis
triton-inference-server/perf_analyzer
Aug 2024 - Jun 2025
Contributions:183 reviews, 65 PRs, 290 pushes in 9 months
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