Russell Peterson
Senior Director Of Software at NVIDIA
Westford, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolRussell Peterson is a senior software leader with 18+ years driving platform and embedded software in high-performance networking and semiconductor domains, currently leading software for NVIDIA following the Mellanox acquisition. He has deep hands‑on expertise in Linux, device drivers, Yocto/Poky distributions, Ethernet and release management, and has led cross-functional teams to ship complex SoC platforms like BlueField. Russell excels at translating customer, hardware and business requirements into production-ready software, synchronizing multiple engineering streams, and supporting early system design with key customers. His background spans carrier-grade session border controllers, DPDK, hypervisors and custom boot firmware (ATF/UEFI), reflecting a rare blend of kernel-level depth and program leadership. Based in Westford, MA, he combines pragmatic release discipline with a history of enabling large-scale product launches that balanced performance, scalability and customer deployment needs.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BSCS Computer Science, BSCS Computer Science at Northeastern University
Github Skills (5)
soc10
mellanox8
security4
eagle2
revit-api1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Mellanox/rshim
Feb 2019 - Jul 2019
BlueField RSHIM driver
Contributions:5 commits, 3 pushes, 6 branches in 5 months
bluefield
russell-peterson/bfscripts
Jan 2021 - Oct 2021
Collection of scripts used for BlueField SoC system management.
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
bluefieldmanagement-systemsoc
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