Calvin Linford
Senior Software Engineer at NVIDIA
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCalvin Linford is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building high-throughput, production ML and distributed systems for logistics, advertising, and networking. He has led design and deployment of routing, dispatching, and dynamic pricing systems at Airspace that materially improved on-time delivery and operational resilience, and now focuses on autonomous vehicles and AI infrastructure at NVIDIA. Calvin combines deep systems engineering from his Cisco networking work with applied machine learning pipelines he built at Verve and Airspace, enabling automated model search, training, and serving at scale. He has a proven record of optimizing performance under extreme load (multi-million RPS ad servers) and mentoring teams up to ~20 engineers. Comfortable spanning C++/Go/Python and cloud-native serving, he excels at turning research-grade models into robust, low-latency production services. An uncommon strength is his blend of physics-trained analytical thinking and hands-on systems craft that makes him adept at both algorithm design and operational reliability.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
San José State UniversityUniversity of California San Diego
Github Skills (16)
couchbase8
golang7
environmental6
memcached6
api6
database6
api-client6
fetch5
sql5
orm5
go4
physics4
orm-framework3
orm-library3
physics-engine3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
AirspaceTechnologies/go-mapbox
Dec 2019 - Dec 2021
Mapbox API Client for Go
Contributions:14 reviews, 7 commits, 14 PRs in 2 years
golangapiapi-clientmapboxmapbox-api
jclinford/Physics
Sep 2013 - Jan 2015
Contributions:8 commits, 2 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 year 3 months
physics-enginephysics
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