Igor Safonov
Software Engineer at NVIDIA
Hillsboro, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIgor Safonov is a software engineer with nine years of experience specializing in high-performance numerical and deep learning libraries. He spent the bulk of his career at Intel contributing to the Intel Math Kernel Library for Deep Neural Networks, and recently joined NVIDIA where he continues to work at the intersection of software and AI performance. His background in applied mathematics and computer science from Novosibirsk State Technical University underpins a strong focus on algorithmic efficiency and low-level optimization. Igor brings practical production experience from internship through senior engineering roles, indicating a deep familiarity with long-lived, performance-critical codebases. Colleagues would note his steady progression within a single technical domain, suggesting both subject-matter expertise and a talent for incremental, impactful improvements. Based in Hillsboro, Oregon, he combines a research-informed perspective with hands-on implementation in industry-leading AI infrastructure.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Applied Mathematics and Computer Science at Novosibirsk State Technical University (NSTU)
Russian, English
Github Skills (50)
opencl10
caffe10
python10
diffusion-models10
machine-learning10
inference10
openvino10
sycl10
openmp10
tbb10
oneapi10
deep-learning10
deep-neural-networks10
gpu10
x86-6410
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
igorsafo/onednn-feedstock
Mar 2021 - Apr 2024
A conda-smithy repository for onednn.
Contributions:51 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 1 month
onednnpythoncondasmithy
igorsafo/oneDNN
Jun 2020 - May 2024
oneAPI Deep Neural Network Library (oneDNN)
Contributions:2 PRs, 228 pushes, 25 branches in 3 years 11 months
deep-learningdeep-neural-networkoneapineural-networkonednn
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