Keenan Simpson
System Software Engineer at NVIDIA
Revelstoke, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolKeenan Simpson is a system software engineer at NVIDIA focused on the CUDA user-mode driver, with prior work on cuda-python and CUDA kernel JIT transpilation and language interop. He brings firmware and kernel-driver experience from automotive projects at Ford, where he worked on bootloader, BSP, and secure multithreaded software loading. Based in Revelstoke, BC, Keenan pairs high-performance computing expertise with a practical systems mindset honed by embedded Linux and build-system integration. Outside engineering he’s a volunteer rescue technician and a former Canadian national team athlete and two-time Pan-Am medallist, showing leadership under pressure and an uncommon blend of technical depth and real-world team discipline.
1 year of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, ENGINEERING, Bachelor's degree, ENGINEERING at McGill University
French, English
Github Skills (14)
cuda10
low-level10
gpu10
cudnn10
python10
python-bindings8
cpython8
cpp6
cython6
c-compiler5
big-data4
swig4
compiler3
cpython-extensions1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
ksimpson-work/cuda-python
Nov 2024 - Mar 2025
CUDA Python
Contributions:358 pushes, 33 branches in 3 months
NVIDIA/cuda-python
Oct 2024 - Mar 2025
CUDA Python: Performance meets Productivity
Contributions:158 reviews, 48 PRs, 305 pushes in 5 months
cudapythongpucudnnlow-level
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