Luis Ceze
VP AI Systems Software at University of Washington
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLuis Ceze is a computer systems architect and veteran academic turned operator with 12 years of professional experience and a PhD in Computer Science from UIUC. Currently VP of AI Systems Software at NVIDIA and a Professor at the University of Washington, he blends deep research credentials with hands-on startup leadership as co-founder and former CEO of OctoAI, which focused on efficiency and reliability for generative AI. He has repeatedly moved between research, venture, and product roles—serving as a venture partner at Madrona and founding early startups—demonstrating an uncommon fluency in both building teams and shipping production-grade systems. Based in Seattle, he is known for translating cutting-edge systems research into pragmatic infrastructure for AI workloads, and for bringing an engineer-founder’s perspective to large-scale platform design.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BS and MEng Electrical and Computer Engineering, BS and MEng Electrical and Computer Engineering at USP - Universidade de São PauloPhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (4)
ats9
dfinity3
uid3
embedded1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
uwmisl/imgupload
Dec 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:56 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
uwsampa/arch2030
Mar 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:12 pushes in 10 months
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