Thomas Papatheodore
SMTS Software Development Engineer at AMD
Detroit Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolThomas Papatheodore is an SMTS Software Development Engineer at AMD with a decade of experience enabling AI and HPC research through hardware donations and access to large research clusters. He previously spent six years as an HPC Engineer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, developing GPU benchmark suites, managing training programs, and supporting users on world-class supercomputers. His academic foundation is a PhD in Computational Astrophysics from the University of Tennessee, where he wrote and ran code on Titan to simulate explosive nucleosynthesis for Type Ia supernovae. Thomas bridges deep scientific computing expertise with pragmatic systems engineering, comfortable moving between low-level performance tuning and programmatic stakeholder engagement. He has experience at crosscutting organizations (NVIDIA, ORNL, AMD) that gives him a unique perspective on vendor, research, and user needs in the HPC ecosystem. Colleagues rely on him for reproducible benchmarking, training workflows, and translating astrophysics-scale simulations into production-ready GPU workloads.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computational Astrophysics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computational Astrophysics at University of Tennessee-KnoxvilleBachelor's Degree, Physics, Bachelor's Degree, Physics at University of Michigan-Flint
Github Skills (47)
pytorch10
oak10
inference10
amd10
llm10
cuda10
gpt10
job-scheduler9
spot-instances9
apptainer9
cost-optimization9
tpu9
llama9
xpu9
mlops9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
olcf/intro_to_hip
Jul 2022 - Aug 2022
Contributions:24 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
olcf-tutorials/vector_addition_cuda
Mar 2019 - Jul 2022
Contributions:2 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 5 months
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