Nicholas Wilt
Software Architect at USA Self Employed
City of Rochester, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNicholas Wilt is a seasoned software architect with 14+ years building low-level systems, graphics and performance-critical software for leaders like NVIDIA, Amazon, AMD and high-frequency trading. He helped create CUDA and authored The CUDA Handbook, led development of multiple GPU instance families at AWS (G2, P2) and drove initiatives in GPU virtualization, disaggregation and vendor diversification that enabled Elastic GPU and AppStream 2.0. Known for deep expertise in API design, kernel-mode development and assembly/C++ optimization across architectures, he holds numerous patents and was recognized as an NVIDIA Distinguished Inventor. A pragmatic engineer and technical writer, he continues to influence GPU-enabled cloud products and occasionally publishes long-form technical pieces on parallel programming.
14 years of coding experience
36 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts, Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts, Computer Science at Dartmouth College
Github Skills (7)
cuda10
hip6
cpp4
multiprecision4
arbitrary-precision4
high-performance2
numerical2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ArchaeaSoftware/cudahandbook
Jun 2012 - Nov 2021
Source code that accompanies The CUDA Handbook.
Contributions:322 commits, 1 PR, 21 pushes in 9 years 6 months
cuda
ArchaeaSoftware/parallelprogrammer
Jul 2025 - Oct 2025
Contributions:1 push in 3 months
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