Zach Puller
Senior Software Engineer at NVIDIA
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZach Puller is a senior software engineer with 11 years of experience building high-performance data and distributed systems across fintech, cloud, and developer tooling. Currently at NVIDIA, he contributes to the RAPIDS Accelerator for Apache Spark, bringing GPU-accelerated data processing to large-scale analytics workloads. Previously he helped scale Stripe’s Data Platform and shipped production services at Google, Akuna Capital, and Optiver, demonstrating a strong pedigree in low-latency, data-intensive applications. Based in San Jose, he blends a technical foundation with an atypical background in economics and jazz performance, signaling both analytical rigor and creative problem-solving. An active GitHub presence under zpuller reflects his practical open-source engagement in the data engineering ecosystem.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Economics Jazz Performance, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Economics Jazz Performance at Northwestern University
Github Skills (58)
opencl10
javascript10
spark10
python10
data-science10
dataframes10
pandas10
typescript10
dataframe10
rapids10
interactive10
dask10
gpu10
angularjs10
cuda10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
zpuller/spark-rapids
May 2024 - Apr 2025
Spark RAPIDS plugin - accelerate Apache Spark with GPUs
Contributions:138 pushes, 58 branches in 10 months
zpuller/drawingbored
Jul 2016 - Dec 2022
Real-time, collaborative drawing with websockets
Contributions:1 PR, 37 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 5 months
websocketssocket-iowebsocketcollaborative-drawingnodejs
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