Nihal Pasham
Senior Systems Software Engineer at NVIDIA
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolNihal Pasham is a Senior Systems Software Engineer in Bengaluru with a 16-year track record leading teams and building high-performance, secure systems across embedded, firmware, and accelerator domains. He specializes in Rust for hardware accelerators and secure embedded chips, with hands-on experience in GPU/HPC stacks (CUDA, Vulkan, WebGPU), GPU drivers, bare-metal firmware, and accelerated cryptography including HSMs and formal verification. His recent roles span Bosch and Enfabrica to NVIDIA, reflecting a blend of product security, edge AI/HPC, and heterogenous compute engineering. Nihal pairs systems-level rigor with practical compiler and tooling work (SPIR-V, WGPU, CubeCL), making him as comfortable authoring low-level drivers as optimizing end-to-end compute pipelines. Colleagues value his focus on rock-solid, auditable implementations and his willingness to trade notes on performance and security trade-offs. Outside work he shares technical deep-dives publicly, signaling a commitment to community knowledge-sharing as well as production-grade engineering.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science at Osmania University
English
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Github Skills (146)
firmware10
security10
operating-system10
bootloader10
async10
ptx10
rust10
webassembly10
sandbox10
wasi10
nvidia10
aot10
armv810
wasmtime10
jit10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
nihalpasham/JWT-based-device-auth
Nov 2019 - Jul 2020
Demonstrating 'secure device authentication' using an esp32 running the micropython firmware. This demo leverages a microchip secure element atecc608a and authenticates with Google IoT Core.
Contributions:33 commits, 34 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
authenticationesp32firmwareiot-coremicropython
nihalpasham/rustBoot-book
Feb 2022 - Sep 2022
rustBoot documentation
Contributions:12 reviews, 118 commits, 20 PRs in 7 months
rustrust-languagerust-langidris
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