Nichols Romero
SMTS Software Development Engineer at AMD
Naperville, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNichols Romero is a computational scientist and software engineer who brings two decades of domain expertise to enable high-performance ML and scientific workloads, currently focused on making PyTorch and PyTorch-based models run efficiently on AMD GPUs. His career spans national labs and industry—Argonne, Intel, and Samsung—where he led performance engineering, compiler front-end work for OpenMP on GPUs, and co-designed next-generation supercomputing architectures. He has deep hands-on experience optimizing scientific codes (QMCPACK, GPAW, MADNESS) for leadership-class systems and contributed tooling like an HPC-centric Python installer and an OpenACC-to-OpenMP converter for Fortran. Based in Naperville, IL, Nichols combines PhD-level physics training with practical systems and compiler skills, mentoring teams and shaping strategic plans for exascale projects. Notably, he bridges vendor, hardware, and open-source ecosystems—having worked directly with Intel math libraries and now addressing community issues on AMD’s PyTorch team.
2 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's of Science Physics, Bachelor's of Science Physics at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyCertificate Strategic Laboratory Leadership Program, Certificate Strategic Laboratory Leadership Program at The University of Chicago Booth School of BusinessDoctor of Philosophy Physics, Doctor of Philosophy Physics at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (46)
pytorch10
python10
windows10
llama10
machine-learning10
linux10
inference10
amd10
numpy10
llm10
deep-learning10
openai10
gpu10
autograd10
neural-network10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
naromero77amd/framework_scripts
Sep 2025 - Jul 2026
Contributions:37 pushes in 10 months
naromero77amd/pytorch
Jan 2026 - Jul 2026
Contributions:42 pushes, 24 branches in 5 months
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