Denis Laprise
Senior Director, Engineering - AV And Robotics Mapping at NVIDIA
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolDenis Laprise is a seasoned engineering leader and entrepreneur with 12 years of experience building mapping, location and retail systems from startup to scale. Currently Senior Director of Engineering for AV and Robotics Mapping at NVIDIA in Palo Alto, he leads teams that connect physical and digital maps for autonomous systems. He co-founded Poly9 and Curbside, served as CTO of Rakuten Ready, and earlier built core geocoding and vector maps infrastructure at Apple—work that shipped in iOS 5 and 6. Known for bootstrapping product-driven engineering organizations, he blends hands-on software hacking with strategic product vision. He consistently moves projects from prototype to production, whether web mapping mashups, real-time logistics platforms, or AV mapping stacks. Based in Silicon Valley, he combines entrepreneurial grit with deep domain expertise in geospatial systems and distributed backend architecture.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Université LavalDEC Technique Informatique, DEC Technique Informatique at Collège François-Xavier-Garneau
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Github Skills (148)
game-development10
data-driven10
game-engine10
rust10
pathfinding10
open-source10
openstreetmap9
astar9
points9
nominatim9
dijkstra9
public-transportation9
cmake9
windows9
visual-studio9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
nside/nside.github.io
Oct 2022 - Mar 2025
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
nside/pbf2graph
Dec 2022 - Mar 2023
Contributions:1 release, 25 commits, 22 pushes in 3 months
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