Idris Kasumu
Senior Software Engineer, Site Reliability AI & GPU Infrastructure at NVIDIA
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIdris Kasumu is a Senior Software Engineer specializing in site reliability, AI and GPU infrastructure with 11 years of experience building and operating large-scale systems across finance and consumer tech. Currently at NVIDIA after a multi-year reliability role at Roblox, he combines deep SRE practices with hands-on infrastructure development for AI workloads and GPU platforms. His background spans DevOps automation, observability, and data-driven tooling from BNY Mellon to enterprise environments, and he holds computer science training from Columbia and information science from the University of Pittsburgh. An active open-source contributor, he has improved developer ergonomics on the popular roblox-ts TypeScript-to-Luau compiler, reflecting a blend of backend compiler work and frontend developer experience. Notably, he has delivered governance and search-platform solutions early in his career, showing a pattern of turning complex operational needs into accessible, production-grade tools.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Columbia UniversityInformation Science, IT/Business, Information Science, IT/Business at University of Pittsburgh
Github Skills (8)
lua10
typescript10
compiler-design10
typescripts10
computer-engineering10
typescript-types10
object-oriented-programming9
testing7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
roblox-ts/roblox-ts
Sep 2018 - Jan 2023
A TypeScript-to-Luau Compiler for Roblox
Role in this project:
Back-end & Frontend Developer
Back-end & Frontend DeveloperContributions:93 releases, 142 reviews, 2912 commits in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Idris primarily worked on the roblox-ts project, a TypeScript-to-Luau compiler. Their contributions focused on enhancing the compiler's capabilities and improving the quality of life for developers using it. The user implemented several features, fixed existing bugs, and improved the internal structure to support features such as class and function syntax.
luarobloxluauroblox-studiocompiler
osyrisrblx/rbxts-projectile
Dec 2019 - Jul 2021
Contributions:32 commits, 2 PRs, 20 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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