Rakshith Krishnappa
Software Engineer at Intel Corporation
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolRakshith Krishnappa is a software engineer with 12+ years of experience based in Portland, Oregon, combining deep embedded and high-performance computing expertise with developer evangelism at Intel. At Intel he has driven technical marketing for oneAPI and DPC++, led Linux driver validation for graphics and GPGPU products, and has a track record across HPC, AI, and digital home platforms since 2005. He founded Picodash, building full-stack products and handling growth, payments, and cloud backends, demonstrating both entrepreneurial and hands-on engineering chops. An active contributor to Intel oneAPI samples, he has improved GPU tooling UX and kept occupancy calculators up to date with new device architectures. Trained with an MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering, he blends hardware-aware performance insight with front-end sensibility—helping bridge low-level drivers to developer-facing tools. Colleagues know him for pragmatic problem-solving and a consistent focus on making complex GPU and cloud technologies approachable.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
BE, Electronics and Communications, BE, Electronics and Communications at M S Ramaiah Institute of TechnologyHigh School (Senior), High School (Senior) at KLE CollegeMS, Electrical and Computer Engineering, MS, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Illinois Institute of TechnologyHigh School, High School at Carmel High School
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oneapi-src/oneAPI-samples
Oct 2021 - Jan 2023
Samples for Intel® oneAPI Toolkits
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Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 20 commits, 60 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Rakshith contributed to the development of the GPU Occupancy Calculator tool, primarily focused on the front-end interface. They fixed typos, aligned fonts, and added new device information to the calculator, demonstrating a focus on UI/UX improvements. The user also worked on adapting the tool to include the latest GPU device architectures, indicating a continuous effort to keep the tool updated and relevant. Their work includes modifications to index.html.
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krisrak/html5-augmented-reality-app
Sep 2013 - Oct 2020
Simple Augmented Reality App implemented using HTML5 and Cordova with Foursquare data overlay
Contributions:20 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 7 years 1 month
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