John Salama
Lead Software Developer at Nuvation Energy
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Salama is a Lead Software Developer with nine years of experience building backend and frontend systems, currently driving engineering at Nuvation Energy. With a foundation in mechatronics (University of Toronto) and ongoing part-time master's work in computer engineering at Waterloo, he bridges hardware-aware thinking with production software practices. His background spans energy systems, medical research, and ML-driven video and handwriting digitization projects, evidencing multidisciplinary problem-solving from cryo-EM adjacent research contexts to long-acting drug delivery sensor work at MIT. He has progressed rapidly through individual contributor and staff roles into technical leadership, shipping data and application-focused solutions in regulated and research environments. Known for turning academic research prototypes into deployable software, he brings a pragmatic, experiment-driven approach to teams tackling complex, real-world engineering challenges. Based in Old Toronto, he combines deep technical curiosity with hands-on delivery across domains that intersect hardware, ML, and cloud software.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Visiting Student, ENGINEERING, Visiting Student, ENGINEERING at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBA.Sc, Mechatronics Engineering, High Honours, BA.Sc, Mechatronics Engineering, High Honours at University of TorontoMaster's degree - Part-time, Computer Engineering, Master's degree - Part-time, Computer Engineering at University of Waterloo
English, French, Arabic
Github Skills (10)
python3
gpu3
blas3
numerical2
pycuda2
lapack2
cuda2
cublas1
cusolver1
cufft1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
johnrubinstein/SIOcontrol
Dec 2017 - Jan 2020
Contributions:49 commits, 39 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 1 month
johnrubinstein/grid-freezing-components
Mar 2020 - Sep 2020
Contributions:13 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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