Valentin A. Email & Phone Number

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

Senior staff individual contributor regarded as a top senior technical lead for AI compute performance - I help driving AI/GPU efficiency from the trenches. I spend more than half of my time with deep hands-on work across the whole stack: optimizations to platforms, CUDA kernels, PyTorch, AI frameworks, model code and supporting services; debugging performance and reliability issues in large scale distributed training; research and prototyping new features.On the directional front I am driving efficiency initiatives, I guide our performance tooling and observability infrastructure, define metrics and goals across divisions, contribute to capacity management decisions, drive mentoring and structured knowledge sharing.

Santa Clara, California, Us

I transferred to US and continued as a technical lead focusing on CUDA and OpenCL accelerated workloads (HPC and AI). Within the scope of my work were performance analysis, software optimizations, benchmark development, simulator development and systems modeling. I was a member of a core business division where we proposed processor micro-architecture improvements, set performance targets and made product roadmap decisions. I co-authored 12 patent applications.

Santa Clara, California, Us

I was a technical lead, patent mentor and academic program coordinator for our platform analysis division. I seeded and ramped up 2 performance characterization teams that grew to more than 30 engineers. Our scope of work was platform performance analysis and characterization, software optimizations, benchmark development, system modeling, and developing tools, benchmarks and simulators.

Bucharest, Bucharest, Ro

I taught a BSc laboratory of Microprocessor Architecture and a Masters course of Micro-controllers & Embedded Systems. I was also an active member in a NATO Science for Peace university project, aiming research and scoping for the IEEE 802.21 standard.

Bucharest, Ro

We developed a biometric pen used for account authentication based on unique hand movement during signature acquisition. I added neural networks based classification to our system and implemented a C++ AI framework responsible for the entire pipeline of training, serializing and executing the model. I also designed and implemented CUDA acceleration to our backend authentication service.

Cambridge, England, Gb

First individual technical contributor of the company - a computational biotechnology startup based in Valencia, Spain. I designed and developed the prototype for our first product: an FPGA accelerator for genomics sequence alignment. With it, Celeromics won 5 grants and was named the 2008 most promising startup in the Valencia technology hub.

Bucharest, Ro

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Automated Speech Analysis

Master, Signal Processing In Tellecomunications

Engineer, Electronics, Hardware - Software Programming, Computer Networks