ThomasĀ Nijssen
Senior GPU Architecture Engineer at NVIDIA
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolThomas Nijssen is a Senior GPU Architecture Engineer based in San Jose with 11 years of experience designing and verifying complex hardware and system-level features. At NVIDIA he focuses on context switching and privileged register interfaces that coordinate multi-program GPU usage, developing architectural simulators and robust test suites in C, C++, and Perl. His background blends practical PCB and probe-card design at Teradyne and Broadcom with academic research improving logic simulator compile times and executable size for his MS thesis at UC Santa Cruz. A patient mentor and proven educator, he has taught and tutored hundreds of students in logic and computer architecture, honing an ability to explain intricate concepts clearly. Notably, he pairs low-level hardware intuition with software tooling expertise, enabling cross-domain solutions from RTL-aware simulation to verification automation.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Leland High SchoolUniversity of California Santa Cruz
Dutch, French
Github Skills (46)
canvas-lms9
lms9
soc9
scala8
chisel8
hardware-designs8
simulator8
vlsi7
electrical-engineering7
rocket7
firrtl7
risc-v7
risc7
high-performance7
agile7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
nijssen/web2rss
Apr 2021 - Jun 2022
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 year 2 months
nijssen/essent
Jan 2021 - Jun 2021
high-performance RTL simulator
Contributions:12 pushes, 3 branches in 4 months
rtlperformancesimulatorhigh-performance
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