David Edelsohn
Alliances Manager at GNU Project
City of White Plains, New York, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Edelsohn is a veteran technology leader with 33 years of experience building and scaling open source and AI ecosystems across Linux, hybrid cloud, and specialized hardware platforms. He combines deep compiler and systems expertise—pioneering work on GCC, AIX, PowerPC/PPC64 ports, and SIMD optimizations—with strategic ecosystem-building that has driven significant revenue and adoption for enterprise platforms. At IBM he launched cross-industry initiatives for AI accelerators, open models, and data-center design, and he now applies that ecosystem-first approach as Alliances Manager at NVIDIA. A founding member of the GCC Steering Committee and an early IBM open-source contributor, he blends technical authorship (including notable GCC test-suite and optimization work) with IP, licensing, and supply-chain leadership. His background in computational physics and sustained open-source stewardship gives him a rare combination of academic rigor, low-level performance savvy, and practical industry diplomacy. He’s also exploring less obvious intersections of tech and culture, such as object representation in the Metaverse and NFT-linked data provenance.
33 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
A.B. Physics and Astronomy Department of Astronomy Dorothea Klumpke-Roberts Prize, A.B. Physics and Astronomy Department of Astronomy Dorothea Klumpke-Roberts Prize at University of California, BerkeleyPh.D. Physics Syracuse University Fellowship IBM Fellowship, Ph.D. Physics Syracuse University Fellowship IBM Fellowship at Syracuse UniversityMirman SchoolUniversity Senior High SchoolCalifornia Institute of TechnologyUniversity of California, Los Angeles
English, Spanish, Portuguese
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Github Skills (14)
c1710
compiler10
aix10
c1110
powerpc9
testing9
cprogramming-language7
c-language7
gcc6
cross-compiling6
assembly6
gnu-assembler6
assemble5
assembler5
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
gcc-mirror/gcc
Mar 2020 - Apr 2021
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:39 commits in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:David primarily contributed to the GCC compiler test suite, focusing on AIX platform-specific issues. They implemented test cases related to double complex alignment, and fixed existing ones to handle byte order differences. The user also addressed compiler issues that prevented correct test case execution on the AIX platform by modifying, adding or removing tests and test requirements.
edelsohn/libgcrypt
May 2019 - Dec 2020
The GNU crypto library
Contributions:4 PRs, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
crypto-librarycryptographyecdhsha256ecdsa
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