James Sandham
Sr Software Developer at AMD
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Sandham is a senior software developer with 8+ years of experience building high-performance GPU and simulation software, currently working on AMD's ROCm platform. With an MMath in Applied Mathematics from the University of Waterloo and hands-on LES research in turbulent convective boundary layers, he blends deep numerical PDE and linear algebra expertise with practical parallel computing skills (CUDA, MPI). His background includes developing VR training applications at Serious Labs and applied projects spanning finance, solid mechanics, N-body simulations, and game-engine algorithms, reflecting a strong appetite for cross-domain problem solving. Primarily coding in C++, C#, and CUDA, he pairs rigorous mathematical thinking with production-grade implementation, and maintains a public portfolio of projects and demos that illustrate his applied research-to-software pipeline.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Fluid Dynamics Summer School, Fluid Dynamics Summer School at University of AlbertaMMath, Applied Mathematics, MMath, Applied Mathematics at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (41)
sparse10
opencl10
python10
solver10
fortran10
mpi10
machine-learning10
imgui10
blas10
iterative10
graphical-user-interface10
numpy10
petsc10
openmp10
deep-learning10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jsandham/hipSPARSE
Mar 2020 - Aug 2025
ROCm SPARSE marshalling library
Contributions:570 pushes, 153 branches in 5 years 5 months
sparserocmmarshalling
jsandham/rocALUTION
Jul 2020 - Dec 2025
Next generation library for iterative sparse solvers for ROCm platform
Contributions:18 pushes, 18 branches in 5 years 5 months
next-generationgleamsolversiterativesparse
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