Jacopo Pantaleoni
Science Writer at Self-employed
Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolJacopo Pantaleoni is a science writer and former mathematician with 14 years of industry experience translating deep technical expertise in computer graphics and high-performance computing into accessible analysis of technological change. After a long research career at NVIDIA—where he rose to Principal Engineer/Research Scientist and contributed to pioneering rendering and parallel-compute work—he authored a forthcoming book, The Quickest Revolution, examining emerging tech’s risks to democracy and humanity. His early innovations include memory-efficient algorithms that enabled interactive ray-tracing of extremely large models and the rendering backbone for Reality Server, reflecting a rare mix of foundational research and production-grade systems design. Based in Germany, he leverages academic rigor and insider engineering perspective to probe not just what new technologies can do, but how they reshape institutions and societies.
14 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Pure Mathematics, Pure Mathematics at Università degli Studi di Padova
English, Italian, German
Github Skills (15)
cuda10
bioinformatics10
gpu10
api9
graphical-user-interface8
imgui8
game-engine7
game-development7
compile7
user-interface7
cpp7
doxygen6
cross-platform6
git-repository5
swig4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
NVlabs/nvbio-gpl
Jan 2014 - May 2014
Contributions:35 commits in 4 months
cudagpureusable-componentsbioinformaticsaccelerate
NVlabs/nvbio
Sep 2014 - Apr 2015
NVBIO is a library of reusable components designed to accelerate bioinformatics applications using CUDA.
Contributions:311 commits, 190 pushes, 5 tags in 7 months
cudagpureusable-componentsbioinformaticsaccelerate
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