Summary
Stephen Pacwa is a software engineer specializing in AI infrastructure with a decade of experience building scalable data and compute systems from internships to his current role at NVIDIA in San Francisco. He blends a strong academic foundation in computer engineering (BS/MS from Santa Clara University) with practical expertise in containerization, AWS deployments, and data pipeline refactors demonstrated at Intuit and Nor1. His interests span procedural generation, graphics systems, and big data, and he has hands-on experience operationalizing research—having contributed to a novel scalable blockchain project during his graduate work. Comfortable across research, campus IT, and production engineering, he brings a pragmatic focus on reliability and cost-saving engineering (e.g., in-house hardware repairs and modularizing legacy code). Notably, he pairs penetration-testing experience with infrastructure skills, giving him a security-minded approach to deploying AI systems.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science and Engineering at Santa Clara University
English, German