Orlando Vazquez
Senior Software Engineer at NVIDIA
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolOrlando Vazquez is a senior software engineer with 17 years of hands-on experience building high-performance cloud, AI and simulation software for industrial and defense customers. Currently at NVIDIA working on Omniverse simulation technology, he blends deep C++ and systems expertise with Unreal Engine performance engineering from prior roles at iPerformX and Offworld. He has a strong track record in large-scale multiplayer and real-time simulation, performance tuning, and DevOps—contributions to SmartOS and early, influential work on Node.js/Triton highlight his low-level systems pedigree. Orlando excels at leading cross-disciplinary teams, translating complex requirements into robust architectures, and shipping mission-critical demos and products shown at events like I/ITSEC. Based in Vancouver, he is a lifelong learner who pairs technical leadership with pragmatic implementation, often surfacing subtle reliability fixes (e.g., metadata and socket handling) that keep distributed systems running.
17 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Hollywood Upstairs Medical College
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (16)
smartos10
nodejs10
javascript10
metadata-management10
virtualization10
system-administration9
networking8
devops8
file-operations7
fileio7
json7
filesystem7
scripting5
shell5
sh5
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
TritonDataCenter/smartos-live
Mar 2011 - Jul 2019
For more information, please see http://smartos.org/ For any questions that aren't answered there, please join the SmartOS discussion list: https://smartos.topicbox.com/groups/smartos-discuss
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:24 commits, 2 branches in 8 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Orlando contributed to the SmartOS Live repository by fixing a CPU cap setting issue and saving metadata before booting a machine. They also merged a release branch. Additional contributions involved adding a metadata agent and support for returning Number-type values, indicating involvement in the system's core functionality. Furthermore, they fixed exception handling on zone socket errors and addressed issues related to metadata socket permissions and retries, showing DevOps-related work.
groupssmartosjoindiscussiot
TritonDataCenter/sdc-cnapi
Mar 2012 - Mar 2019
SDC Compute Node API -- deals with communication to and management of compute nodes
Contributions:667 commits, 1 PR, 139 pushes in 7 years
apideals-apisdcnodescommunication
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