Colin Smith
Sr Manager Software Development Eng. at AMD
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolColin Smith is a senior software development leader with a Ph.D. in Computer Science and over 15 years of engineering experience, currently managing more than 30 developers across AMD’s ROCm libraries for HPC and AI. He combines deep systems programming in C/C++ and performance-focused languages like Swift and Python with hands-on architecture and CI/infrastructure ownership for GPU-accelerated open-source software. His career spans animation studios and cloud-backed mobile apps to high-performance simulation and scientific computing, giving him a rare blend of production, research, and product-driven perspectives. Known for shipping math libraries (rocSOLVER, rocSPARSE, rocFFT) at scale, he excels at turning complex numerical and infrastructure challenges into reliable developer-facing tooling.
8 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Computer Science, Ph.D., Computer Science at University of Calgary
English, French
Github Skills (107)
opencv10
sphinx-doc10
python10
image-processing10
hip10
deep-learning10
thrust10
sdk10
computer-vision10
sparse10
sphinx10
aws-sdk10
lapack10
cuda10
aws-sdk-ios10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
doctorcolinsmith/Cache
Sep 2018 - Apr 2019
:package: Nothing but Cache.
Contributions:3 releases, 6 pushes, 10 tags in 6 months
nothingcache
doctorcolinsmith/carthage-problem-b
Oct 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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