Summary
Guy Martin is a seasoned technology leader and Director of Open Source & Standards at NVIDIA, with a decade of formal leadership experience built on a long career as a hands-on software engineer across industries from automotive and cellular to defense and consumer electronics. He specializes in translating complex technical and community dynamics for non-technical stakeholders and shaping strategies that help companies engage effectively with open source projects and open standards—most recently around Omniverse, USD, MaterialX, and MDL. A founding board member of the Alliance for OpenUSD and twice a governing board member of the Academy Software Foundation, he blends executive leadership with community-first tactics to turn open collaboration into measurable business value. Known for launching company-wide initiatives like Open@ADSK and building repeatable open-source consulting practices at Red Hat, he pairs product-focused pragmatism with deep community management experience. Based in Beaverton, Oregon, he quietly doubles as a social media strategist for developer outreach, applying those channels to increase organizational productivity and influence.
10 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo