Ilya Kryukov
Senior Software Engineer at NVIDIA
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolIlya Kryukov is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience specializing in real-time rendering, high-performance computing, and graphics systems, currently contributing to NVIDIA's AI networking UCC library. He has driven performance-critical features across Omniverse—from scalable OpenUSD metadata storage in Rust to realtime ray tracing, GPU skinning, and production-ready rendering integrations—bridging research prototyping and shipping product code. His background at Intel on VTune and HPC benchmarking gives him deep systems-level profiling and optimization expertise that complements his graphics work. Comfortable across C++, Rust, CUDA and graphics APIs (DXR, Vulkan), he repeatedly improves throughput and fidelity while navigating driver and infrastructure changes. Colleagues rely on him to turn complex numerical and rendering problems into robust, high-performance implementations.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Applied Mathematics, Master's degree Applied Mathematics at Nizhniy Novgorod State Technical University named after R.Y. Alekseev (NSTU)
English, Russian
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Github Skills (59)
infiniband10
pytorch10
snmp10
rdma10
4g10
mpi10
aries10
networking10
mailman10
cuda10
scene10
portability10
shared-memory10
subset10
communications10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ikryukov/ucc
Aug 2023 - Apr 2025
Unified Collective Communication Library
Contributions:192 pushes, 11 branches, 1 tag in 1 year 7 months
ikryukov/Strelka
Dec 2020 - Oct 2022
Strelka PathTracer
Contributions:171 reviews, 193 commits, 96 PRs in 1 year 10 months
pathtracerstrelka
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