Nikhil Raj
Staff Engineer at Arm
Galway, Ireland
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Top SchoolNikhil Raj is a Staff Engineer at Arm Ireland with over a decade in software engineering, blending low-level C++ and Python systems work with automation and performance testing expertise. He progressed from software testing at Infosys to senior engineering roles at Arm, contributing to Arm NN by adding data-layout support for depthwise convolutions across Neon and OpenCL backends and extending unit tests. Comfortable with tooling like Jenkins, Git and HP testing suites, he bridges developer-facing ML runtime changes and practical test automation. Based in Galway, he pairs an academic foundation from UCC (MSc Computer Science) with hands-on backend development that improves both performance and portability in embedded ML stacks.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at University College CorkBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala
English
Github Skills (8)
neural-network10
machine-learning10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
neon9
opencl9
data-structures8
data-structure8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
ARM-software/armnn
Sep 2018 - Jan 2023
Arm NN ML Software.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:20 releases, 334 commits, 39 pushes in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Nikhil's contributions focused on enhancing the Arm NN ML software. Their work involved implementing a data layout parameter for the DepthwiseConvolution function across various backend implementations, including Neon and OpenCL. This involved modifying existing code across multiple files, including workload implementations, and descriptors, to accommodate the new parameter and its associated functionality. The user also contributed to the unit tests for the DepthwiseConvolution with NHWC data layout.
machine-learningneural-networkneural-networks
ARM-software/android-nn-driver
Sep 2018 - Nov 2022
Contributions:20 releases, 33 commits, 4 pushes in 4 years 2 months
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