Nicholas Wilt
Software Architect at Stealth AI Startup
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.
13 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 (11)
gpu9
cuda9
heterogeneous7
hip7
arbitrary-precision5
multiprecision5
integer5
portability5
numerical3
high-performance2
cpp2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
ArchaeaSoftware/cudahandbook
Jun 2012 - Nov 2021
Contributions:322 commits, 1 PR, 18 pushes in 9 years 6 months
cudagpuhandbook
iseurie/fractalier
Jul 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:6 pushes in 1 day
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