Nico Galoppo
Performance Architect at Apple
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolNico Galoppo is a Performance Architect with 12+ years optimizing end-to-end computer vision, deep learning, and AI stacks to squeeze maximum efficiency from heterogeneous compute at the edge. A seasoned principal engineer formerly leading AI performance and OpenVINO enablement at Intel and now at Apple, he helps customers and partners deploy cost-effective AI across industrial, robotics, automotive and retail settings. He pairs low-level GPU and media-acceleration expertise with system-level software architecture, often balancing workload across CPU/GPU pipelines for real-world edge constraints. Trained as a PhD computer scientist and with a background in graphics, simulation, and immersive systems, he brings research-grade rigor to production performance engineering. Notably, he has driven cross-organizational API and silicon-influence efforts that turned prototype acceleration features into commercial implementations. Based in Portland, he combines deep hardware-aware optimization skills with hands-on customer enabling to make AI run better where it matters.
12 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Electrical Engineering, MSc Electrical Engineering at KU LeuvenENSIEG / INPGPost-Graduate Computer Science, Post-Graduate Computer Science at ETH ZurichPhD. Computer Science, PhD. Computer Science at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
English, Dutch, French, Spanish
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Github Skills (200)
pruning10
code-generation10
mesh10
labeling10
intel10
llm-inference10
object-detection10
computer-vision10
evaluation-framework10
nlp10
semantic-segmentation10
image-labeling10
openvino10
triton10
action-recognition10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
ngaloppo/openvino
May 2021 - Jul 2023
OpenVINO™ Toolkit repository
Contributions:13 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 2 months
pytorchdeep-learninggpuopenvino-toolkitcomputer-vision
ngaloppo/mac_os-config
Apr 2021 - Jan 2025
Shell scripts for customized macOS machine setup and configuration.
Contributions:6 pushes in 3 years 8 months
customizedshell-scriptsdotfilesmacosshell
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