Nick Richardson
Senior Engineer at Arm
New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Richardson is a Senior Engineer with eight years of experience bridging algorithms, compilers, computer architecture, and hardware design, currently at Arm. He combines rigorous academic training (PhD/MA in Computer Science from Princeton and a BS in Mathematics from Harvey Mudd) with hands-on work in ML and compiler engineering at companies including Qualcomm, Ventrilo.ai, and UnifyID. Nick's professional ethos emphasizes perpetual learning, scientific accountability, and actively seeking disconfirming evidence to accelerate growth and technical correctness. He is comfortable moving across the full computing stack—from numeric algorithms and signal processing to microarchitecture and language design—and brings both research depth and product-focused delivery. An intriguing personal metric on his GitHub—“about 30% as powerful as the end goal”—hints at a long-term, iterative mindset toward ambitious technical goals.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Mathematics, Bachelor of Science - BS Mathematics at Harvey Mudd CollegeDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Princeton University
Github Skills (85)
ansible9
python9
ssh9
siggraph8
deep-learning8
gpu8
machine-learning8
devops8
automation7
constraint7
numpy7
foundry7
geometric7
automatic-differentiation7
million7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
njkrichardson/olya
Jan 2022 - Jun 2022
Contributions:1 release, 56 commits, 27 pushes in 5 months
njkrichardson/BeauCoup
Nov 2020 - Dec 2020
Reimplementation and subsequent analysis of the BeauCoup network analysis system for COS 561 final project.
Contributions:17 PRs, 40 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
system-analysiscosreimplementationnetwork-analysissubsequent
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