Vadim Cugunovs
Principal Software Engineer - Autonomous Vehicles at NVIDIA
Bellevue, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolVadim Cugunovs is a Principal Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building perception and systems software for autonomous vehicles and prior expertise in computer vision, tracking, and large-scale image search from roles at NVIDIA, Google, and Microsoft. He combines deep research-driven problem solving—shipping features like image stabilization and face tracking on Google Clips—with production-grade engineering of distributed services and tooling. At NVIDIA he drives architecture and delivery for autonomy stacks, while his long Microsoft tenure spans projects from Photosynth and Bing image search to HoloLens-based monocular position tracking prototypes. An active open-source contributor, he maintains a native LLDB-based VSCode debugger extension, showing a practical affinity for low-level systems and developer tooling. Based in Bellevue, WA, he blends academic rigor from an MS with hands-on experience turning vision research into resilient, deployable systems.
13 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
MS, MS at University of Latvia
English, Russian, Latvian
Github Skills (5)
debugging10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
vscode-extension10
lldb10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
vadimcn/codelldb
Jan 2016 - Oct 2022
A VSCode debugger extension for native code, powered by LLDB.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:111 releases, 12 reviews, 1043 commits in 6 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Vadim appears to be developing and maintaining a native debugger extension for VSCode, based on LLDB. The commits demonstrate the implementation of core debugger functionality and the integration of the extension with the VSCode debug API. The user has made changes to the core logic of the debugging process and added various commands.
lldbnative-codevscode-debuggervscode-extensiondebugger
vadimcn/cargo-pgo
Aug 2016 - Oct 2017
Supercharge you Rust programs!
Contributions:33 commits, 32 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
rust
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