Timothy Perrett
Distinguished Engineer at NVIDIA
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorTimothy Perrett is a Distinguished Engineer based in San Francisco with two decades of experience building large-scale, production-critical distributed systems across companies like NVIDIA, Lyft Level5, Intel, and Verizon. He has led infrastructure and simulation efforts that doubled compute footprints while halving costs, and engineered multi-petaflop distributed simulation platforms delivering millions of runs daily and up to 60x performance gains. A pragmatic advocate of functional programming and open source, he authored Lift in Action and has contributed deep backend work to the Lift Framework (notably lift-imaging). He combines hands-on engineering with strategic leadership—scaling teams, shaping enterprise open source programs, and driving rapid, automated deployment workflows. An avid alpinist outside work, he brings the same methodical, risk-aware approach to designing resilient systems for safety-critical domains.
17 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
English, Italian
Github Skills (7)
lift10
application-framework10
app-framework10
web-framework10
imaging10
scala10
webpages9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
lift/framework
Jan 2010 - Jul 2010
Lift Framework
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:28 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Timothy primarily focused on adding and merging code related to the `lift-imaging` module within the Lift Framework. Their contributions include adding image manipulation helpers, handling GIF transparency, and resizing images. Furthermore, the user made changes to other modules like `lift-persistence`, `lift-base`, and `lift-modules`, including refactoring and merging updates. These activities demonstrate a strong understanding of the Lift Framework internals and its integration with other modules.
frameworkscalaliftjavareal-time
getnelson/helm
Dec 2018 - Sep 2021
A native Scala client for interacting with Consul
Contributions:14 commits, 9 PRs, 14 pushes in 2 years 9 months
consulscalascala-native
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