Chris Kime
Development Manager, A A Solutions Group at IBM
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolChris Kime is a seasoned software leader and development manager based in Austin with a multi-decade track record of building high-performance, enterprise-grade systems across IBM and AMD. He combines hands-on kernel and systems engineering (C/C++/Unix kernels) with product and release leadership for AI and vision platforms, having led PowerAI Vision/Visual Insights and multiple OpenPOWER initiatives. Known for driving Agile/DevOps transformations and mentoring teams, he has shipped global releases for low-latency financial and AI products while holding several patents from earlier kernel work. His background blends deep technical rigor from UCLA and UT Austin with strategic partnership development, and he now focuses on HPC solutions and performance analysis at AMD. An interesting thread through his career is moving specialist, high-reliability technologies into broadly adopted product platforms—from cluster HA and messaging to AI visual insights.
4 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Master's, Computer Science, Graduated with Honors, Master's, Computer Science, Graduated with Honors at The University of Texas at AustinBS, Computer Science & Engineering, Cum Laude, BS, Computer Science & Engineering, Cum Laude at University of California, Los Angeles
English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Japanese
Github Skills (21)
portability10
blas9
opencl9
gpu-programming9
documentation9
cuda9
gpu8
oneapi8
amd8
hip7
latex6
primitive5
thrust4
quantum-computing4
editor4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ROCm/ROCm
Aug 2024 - Aug 2024
AMD ROCm™ Software - GitHub Home
Contributions:7 reviews, 1 PR, 4 comments in 14 days
cudagpu-programmingamdgpuportability
ROCm/rocThrust
Sep 2023 - Sep 2023
ROCm Thrust - run Thrust dependent software on AMD GPUs
Contributions:2 comments, 3 issues in 5 days
cudaamdthrustgpurocm
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