Nick Stathas
Member Of Technical Staff at OpenAI
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Stathas is a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI with a decade of experience building high-performance distributed systems, autonomous vehicle stacks, and embedded software. He led SALIENT, a multi-GPU GNN training system at MIT that delivered 3x speedups over optimized PyTorch baselines and co-authored an MLSys paper, and previously engineered real-time LiDAR perception and trajectory optimization for race cars that handled 2G cornering at 150+ mph. Nick blends deep systems-level performance engineering (kernel-level threading, zero-copy pipelines, DMA, CAN bus drivers) with practical product delivery at firms like Jump Trading, NVIDIA, and Citadel, and contributes front-end UX improvements to notable open-source projects such as MDN’s WebExtensions examples. Comfortable recruiting and managing small, high-performing teams, he has a track record of turning research prototypes into production-grade systems and automating developer workflows at scale. Based in San Francisco with MEng and BS degrees from MIT, he combines competitive motorsports experience with cutting-edge ML infrastructure expertise.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng Computer Systems and Artificial Intelligence, Master of Engineering - MEng Computer Systems and Artificial Intelligence at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Github Skills (9)
css10
javascript10
webextension10
browser10
html9
ui-design8
mdt7
mdc7
mdns7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
mdn/webextensions-examples
Oct 2016 - Oct 2016
Example Firefox add-ons created using the WebExtensions API
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 10 comments in 3 days
Contributions summary:Nick primarily focused on enhancing the user interface of a Firefox add-on. Their contributions involved modifications to the popup UI, including button functionalities, appearance adjustments using CSS, and event handling in JavaScript. The changes included adding features, updating button behaviors, and refining the overall interaction flow within the add-on's popup. Furthermore, the user addressed issues and improved the responsiveness of the user interface.
firefoxapiadd-onsfirefox-add-onsbrowser
MITMotorsports/ParseCAN
Oct 2017 - Apr 2020
A robust Python API for parsing CAN-bus serialization specifications and deserializing logs.
Contributions:161 commits, 5 PRs, 125 pushes in 2 years 6 months
apipythonloggingparsingspecifications
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