Nir Paz
Senior Software Engineer at Habana Labs
Israel
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Top SchoolNir Paz is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of professional experience and a long firmware background stretching back to 2007, now focused on embedded and computer vision systems for automotive and AI hardware. He has driven low-level C/C++ development and runtime optimizations on ARM platforms and GPUs (Adreno) under QNX, and previously implemented complex firmware and protocol stacks at SanDisk. At Innoviz he led major modules across first- and next-generation CV products, working directly with HW accelerators and real-time constraints, and recently joined Habana Labs to continue pushing edge compute performance. Nir combines deep hands-on skills in low-level coding, hardware acceleration, and system-level design with practical experience across the full product lifecycle, making him effective at turning algorithmic needs into performant, production-ready embedded solutions. An engineer by training from Ben-Gurion University, he brings a pragmatic focus on runtime efficiency and a history of optimizing constrained systems that few software engineers attain.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's Degree Electrical and Computer Engineering, Engineer's Degree Electrical and Computer Engineering at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
English, Hebrew
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Github Skills (75)
mbed10
internet10
deep-learning10
gpu10
arm10
compression10
optimization10
operating-system10
crypto10
portable10
linux10
api10
readable10
kernel10
data-parallelism10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
NirSonnenschein/DeepSpeed
May 2024 - Mar 2025
DeepSpeed is a deep learning optimization library that makes distributed training and inference easy, efficient, and effective.
Contributions:23 pushes, 10 branches in 9 months
NirSonnenschein/mbedtls
Mar 2018 - Oct 2018
An open source, portable, easy to use, readable and flexible SSL library
Contributions:28 pushes, 6 branches in 7 months
xmakesslreadablessl-libraryreliable
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