Federico Busato is a Senior Software Engineer at NVIDIA specializing in high-performance computing, sparse linear algebra, and GPGPU software optimization with six years of industry experience and a PhD background. He led development of NVIDIA's cuSPARSE and cuSPARSELt libraries—core CUDA Toolkit components used broadly across HPC and deep learning—and now contributes to the CUDA Core Compute Libraries. Federico combines deep research experience (postdoc and visiting scholar roles) with practical engineering, shipping performance-critical GPU primitives that power both academic and industry workloads. He also teaches Modern C++ and has authored a comprehensive course and GitHub resources used for intern training and developer upskilling. Not obvious from titles: he has repeatedly bridged academic rigor and production engineering, e.g., developing novel sparse-transpose strategies during an early NVIDIA internship. Based in California, he focuses on squeezing peak performance from modern GPU architectures and advanced C++ techniques.
6 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Postdoctoral Research Associate at Università degli Studi di Verona
Programming and Tuning Massively Parallel Systems (PUMPS) Summer School , Programming and Tuning Massively Parallel Systems (PUMPS) Summer School at Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC)
Visiting Scholar, Visiting Scholar at Georgia Institute of Technology
Advanced Computer Architecture and Compilation for High-Performance and Embedded Systems (ACACES) Su, Advanced Computer Architecture and Compilation for High-Performance and Embedded Systems (ACACES) Su at HiPEAC
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Federico Busato - Senior Software Engineer, IC5 at NVIDIA