Jithin Jose
Partner Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJithin Jose is a Partner Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft with 11 years of experience building and optimizing high-performance distributed systems and HPC software. He progressed from research roles into engineering and leadership at Microsoft after a PhD in Computer Science from The Ohio State University, bringing deep expertise in low-latency messaging and network conduits. His open-source contributions to prominent projects like Open MPI and libfabric demonstrate hands‑on skill in shaving microsecond-level overheads and tightening read/write latency and bandwidth benchmarks. Known for combining systems-level C expertise with pragmatic engineering leadership, he reliably turns performance research into production improvements for large-scale compute platforms.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at The Ohio State University
Github Skills (15)
c1710
mpi10
communication-protocol10
protocols10
hpc10
lib10
openmpi10
c-programming10
c1110
performance-optimization10
performance-testing10
fortran9
data-structures8
data-structure8
networking8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ofiwg/libfabric
Sep 2014 - Oct 2016
Open Fabric Interfaces
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:557 commits, 289 PRs, 116 pushes in 2 years
Contributions summary:Jithin primarily contributed to improving the read/write latency tests and bandwidth benchmarks in the Open Fabric Interfaces library. These improvements included cleaning up existing test code, adding functionality to define the number of warmup iterations, and ensuring correct handling of completion events. The user's changes involved modifying simple C code to improve and extend existing performance testing capabilities within the libfabric library.
interfacesminecraftfabric
open-mpi/ompi
Apr 2015 - Jul 2015
Open MPI main development repository
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 23 commits, 7 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Jithin focused on optimizing the Message Passing Interface (MPI) implementation within the Open MPI project. They made significant changes to the PML CM (Point-to-Point Messaging Layer - Connection Manager) component, aiming to improve performance by reducing overhead in send/receive operations. Further contributions included inlining frequently used functions and avoiding unnecessary data structure lookups, improving the efficiency of data packing and unpacking within the MPI communication framework. These optimizations likely improve the performance of MPI-based applications.
mpicluster-computingfortranopenmpipetsc
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