Nitish Kulshrestha
MTS Software Engineer at AMD
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolNitish Kulshrestha is an MTS Software Engineer based in Toronto with 9 years of experience building low-level systems, hardware models, and performance tooling for GPUs and heterogeneous accelerators. He has driven graphics and silicon bring-up features at Qualcomm and now develops multimodal ML benchmarking and profiling tools for Ryzen AI, bridging APU/NPU execution for heterogeneous inference. Strong in C++ and Git, his background spans firmware safety instrumentation at NVIDIA to GPU functional modeling at Intel, giving him a rare end-to-end view from boot firmware to high-performance ML stacks. Known for shipping performance-sensitive features like shared virtual memory and tile-based deferred rendering, he combines rigorous systems thinking with practical prototyping to tame parallelism and hardware acceleration.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and ScienceUniversity of California, San Diego
English, Hindi
Github Skills (37)
risc-v10
cortex-m10
kernel10
arm10
embedded10
rust10
operating-system10
bare-metal9
pattern9
microcontroller9
iot9
phrase9
wordnet8
extraction8
mcu8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
nikulshr/resnet_fpga
Apr 2020 - Jun 2020
UCSD CSE 237D Spring '20 Course Project
Contributions:26 commits, 10 PRs, 28 pushes in 1 month
spring-bootspringcsejavaucsd
nikulshr/tock
Feb 2020 - Nov 2020
A secure embedded operating system for microcontrollers
Contributions:29 pushes in 9 months
securestlinkoperating-systemrtosoperating
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