Nick Adams
Principal Engineer at NVIDIA
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Adams is a Principal Engineer with a decade of hands-on experience building embedded, automotive, and AI-enabled systems, now leading initiatives at NVIDIA after progressing from Senior Software Engineer. His background spans production vehicle software—shipping steering systems for Ford F-Series trucks—and research-driven startups where he implemented brain-inspired algorithms, FPGA spiking nets, and sensor-integrated Android/VR apps. Comfortable across firmware, backend services, and simulation tooling, he has repeatedly bridged academic research and production engineering from UW–Madison to the University of Michigan and DTU. Known for turning experimental algorithms into robust products, he brings a pragmatic, systems-oriented approach to complex safety- and performance-critical software stacks.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Computer Science and Engineering, Master of Science, Computer Science and Engineering at University of MichiganBachelor of Science, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering at University of Wisconsin-MadisonTechnical University of Denmark
Github Skills (43)
serverless9
microservices8
distributed-systems8
adfs7
django-authentication7
azure-active-directory7
authentication7
django7
ldap-client7
serverless-architectures7
backend6
jwt6
openid-connect5
ldap4
azuread4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
nnadams/SDC-TrafficSigns-P2
Mar 2018 - Mar 2018
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
nnadams/mage
Sep 2021 - Sep 2021
Magic Another Game Engine
Contributions:3 pushes in 1 day
gamedevmagicgame-developmentopenglengine
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