Jon Pry
Senior Staff Perception Engineer at Plus
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJon Pry is a Senior Staff Perception Engineer with 16 years of experience building high-performance perception stacks and hardware-software systems, currently focused on autonomous vehicle perception at Plus. He brings deep expertise in GPU programming (CUDA/OpenCL), embedded Linux and kernel drivers, and low-level C/C++ optimization, combined with compiler/metaprogramming and RTL experience in SystemVerilog/VHDL. Jon has a track record of architecting for simplicity—delivering practical, production-ready solutions that “just work”—and has held hands-on leadership roles from CTO to owner of a manufacturing firm. His background spans both software and silicon domains, enabling tight integration of perception algorithms with hardware acceleration. Based in the Seattle area, he blends pragmatic engineering with a systems mindset and a penchant for turning complex problems into elegant, performant implementations. Outside of work hours he’s the kind of engineer who values getting the fundamentals right over chasing buzzwords.
17 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science at Thomas Edison State University
Github Skills (48)
hardware10
bluetooth10
microcontroller9
application-design9
iot9
embedded9
addon8
rtos8
bluetooth-le8
mcu8
nvidia8
interpreter8
git8
zephyr-rtos7
zephyr7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jonpry/prython
Nov 2019 - Feb 2020
Contributions:60 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
jonpry/octagon
Apr 2013 - Jul 2015
Contributions:87 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
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