Richard Evans
Senior Solutions Architect at NVIDIA
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Evans is a Senior Solutions Architect with 12+ years of hands-on experience in HPC performance engineering and a PhD in Physics, known for leading application acceptance for the Frontera supercomputer and currently enabling GPU components for Aurora’s 2+ exaflop SDK. He combines technical management and deep systems expertise—performance monitoring, workload characterization, high-speed interconnects, and parallel filesystems—to drive multimillion-dollar projects from proposal to production. At TACC he led HPC performance and architecture efforts and later managed teams at Intel focused on GPU application optimization for Aurora before joining NVIDIA. Richard’s work spans C/C++, Python, MPI/OpenMP/SYCL development and nearly 50 publications, reflecting a rare mix of research pedigree and production-grade engineering. An understated strength is his track record of translating low-level hardware characteristics into pragmatic software optimizations that scale on cutting-edge supercomputers.
12 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins UniversityPhD Physics, PhD Physics at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (4)
rabbitmq10
performance-analysis10
monitoring9
hpc9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
TACC/HPCPerfStats
Nov 2014 - Apr 2022
TACC Stats is an automated resource-usage monitoring and analysis package.
Contributions:4 releases, 73 commits, 1 PR in 7 years 6 months
performance-analysistaccstatsanalysis-packagemonitoring
TACC/tacc_logs
Sep 2015 - Aug 2016
Contributions:1 release, 9 commits, 12 pushes in 10 months
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