Paul Mattione
Senior Systems Programmer at NVIDIA
Rockville, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolPaul Mattione is a Senior Systems Programmer and Ph.D. experimental particle physicist with nearly two decades of C++ experience, currently optimizing RAPIDS and Apache Spark GPU workloads at NVIDIA. He combines deep systems-level expertise—from game-engine world/asset streaming and memory/threading optimizations at Deep Silver Volition to speeding GPU Parquet decoding and precise floating-to-fixed decimal kernels—delivering 20–50% performance wins across domains. Paul has a track record of radically improving multithreaded scientific analysis software (up to ~450% scaling gains) and packaging large data pipelines, and he’s led workshops and coordinated collaborations of 100+ scientists. Known for translating research-grade algorithms into production-quality, high-performance code, he pairs strong communication and mentorship skills with a rare blend of physics-driven rigor and practical systems optimization.
2 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Experimental Particle Physics, Master of Science (M.S.), Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Experimental Particle Physics at Rice UniversityBachelor of Science (BS), Electrical Engineering, Graduated with honors., Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical Engineering, Graduated with honors. at University of Missouri-Rolla
Github Skills (35)
data-analysis10
opencl10
memory-allocation10
python10
data-science10
memory-management10
dataframes10
pandas10
cudf10
dataframe10
rapids10
dask10
gpu10
cuda10
python-bindings10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
pmattione-nvidia/spark-rapids-jni
Apr 2024 - Feb 2025
RAPIDS Accelerator JNI For Apache Spark
Contributions:34 pushes, 9 branches in 10 months
pmattione-nvidia/cudf
Feb 2024 - Mar 2025
cuDF - GPU DataFrame Library
Contributions:3 PRs, 218 pushes, 36 branches in 1 year 1 month
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