Pramod Kumbhar
Senior Solutions Architect - HPC & AI at NVIDIA
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolPramod Kumbhar is a Senior Solutions Architect specializing in HPC and AI with over 15 years of deep technical experience and nine years in senior roles driving large-scale compute strategies from research labs to industry. He has led teams of up to 18 engineers at EPFL’s Blue Brain, operating and optimizing a 50k-core cluster with GPU acceleration and spearheading cloud transitions, DSL compiler development, and production-grade simulation toolchains. At NVIDIA he now focuses on HPC and AI infrastructure and training at scale, bridging vendor collaboration, performance tuning, and deployment for demanding scientific workloads. A hands-on performance engineer, he has contributed to the widely used Spack package manager by fixing build errors and improving cross-platform dependency management, reflecting practical expertise in reproducible software stacks. Pramod combines micro-architecture tuning (SIMD, memory layout) with large-scale parallelism (MPI, CUDA, OpenMP/OpenACC) and procurement-to-production experience (RFP, benchmarking, acceptance). He is based in Zurich and known for translating cutting-edge hardware/software trends into actionable roadmaps and robust, scalable systems.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Masters High Performance Computing, Masters High Performance Computing at The University of EdinburghBachelors Computer Science & Engineering, Bachelors Computer Science & Engineering at Walchand College of Engineering(A Govt. Aided Autonomous Institute),SANGLI-M.S
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Github Skills (19)
package-management10
mpi10
build-automation10
build-tools10
autotools9
hpc9
cmake9
scientific-computing8
linux7
python7
cuda6
openmp6
profiling6
gpu6
openacc6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
spack/spack
Jul 2017 - Feb 2018
A flexible package manager that supports multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers.
Role in this project:
Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:26 commits, 31 PRs, 5 pushes in 7 months
Contributions summary:Pramod primarily contributed to build system improvements and package management within the `spack/spack` repository, a flexible package manager. Their commits fixed build errors for various packages like `osu-micro-benchmarks`, `Scalasca`, `mpiP`, and `caffe`. They also updated package versions and dependencies, demonstrating expertise in managing build configurations, dependencies, and ensuring compatibility across different platforms and compilers.
compilerspythonradiussplatformslinux
BlueBrain/spack-packages
Sep 2016 - Apr 2018
Repository of spack external packages
Contributions:274 commits, 207 PRs, 214 pushes in 1 year 6 months
spack
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