Nuno Subtil
Summary
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RockstarNuno Subtil is a Principal Software Engineer with 15 years of experience building high-performance graphics and compute systems, currently leading rendering efforts at NVIDIA Lightspeed Studios. He has driven industry-leading real-time path-traced renderers for RTX Remix and served as a Vulkan devtech lead, contributing API extensions and tooling while shepherding ray-tracing interoperability between Vulkan and DX12. His background spans GPU-accelerated bioinformatics, CUDA libraries, and low-level graphics driver work for Tegra and desktop GPUs, reflecting deep expertise across drivers, APIs, and GPU algorithms. Nuno combines hands-on implementation skills with developer advocacy—supporting AAA game studios and collaborating with external partners like the Broad Institute. Based in California, he blends academic training from Coimbra and TU Wien with a rare mix of systems-level engineering and product-focused delivery. An underappreciated strength is his proven ability to translate cutting-edge research into production-ready GPU solutions across diverse domains.
15 years of coding experience
Github Skills (87)
cmake-presets10
rtx10
deep-learning10
cpp10
caffe10
shader10
glsl10
path-tracing10
shell10
codemirror10
git10
vulkan10
shaderc10
vscode-extension10
nvidia10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
nsubtil/lift
Jul 2015 - Jan 2017
Contributions:196 commits, 54 PRs, 129 pushes in 1 year 6 months
cudaparallelgpuparallel-programminggpus
broadinstitute/firepony
Sep 2014 - Nov 2015
Efficient base quality score recalibrator for NGS data
Contributions:480 commits, 42 PRs, 76 pushes in 1 year 2 months
qualityngsngs-data
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