Amit Rao

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India23 yrs 1 mo experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Led the development of DRIVE OS for autonomous vehicles.
Established and grew multiple high-performance software teams.
Pioneered GPU stacks for OpenCL, enhancing computational capabilities.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in Automotive Software Architecture with a focus on high-performance computing.

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GPUDebuggingEmbedded SystemsDevice DriversC++CARMSoCAlgorithmsParallel ProgrammingParallel ComputingOpenGLComputer ArchitectureProcessorsASIC

About

As the Senior Director of Software Architecture, Safety and Security - Automotive at NVIDIA, I lead the team that designs and develops the DRIVE OS, the operating system for autonomous vehicles. I have over 18 years of experience in the software industry, with a focus on embedded systems, graphics, and GPGPU. My mission is to enable the future of mobility and transportation with cutting-edge technology and innovation. I have a strong track record of growing teams from scratch, delivering high-performance and real-time applications, and collaborating with diverse stakeholders across multiple domains.

Experience

23 yrs 1 mo

Total Experience

7 yrs 8 mos

Average Tenure

Current Experience

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Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 3 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Nvidia

4 roles

Senior Director for Software Architecture, Safety and Security - Automotive

Promoted

Jun 2022 – Nov 2024 · 2 yrs 5 mos

https://developer.nvidia.com/drive/driveos

Director of Software Architecture (Automotive)

Mar 2019 – Jun 2022 · 3 yrs 3 mos

DRIVE OS Architecture driving autonomous vehicles

Director of Compute Software

Promoted

Jul 2005 – Mar 2019 · 13 yrs 8 mos

Seeded and grew the compute SW team in Bangalore. This is the second team at NVIDIA that I have started with a couple of people and grown to be fully operational and owners of their own modules.
The team is responsible for compute stacks for autonomous vehicles, robots and medical equipment among other things.
We also represents NVIDIA at the Khronos OpenCL working group and released the first ever GPU stacks for OpenCL 1.0 and 1.1.
Some of the cool stuff we have done:
Robots and Drones: https://developer.nvidia.com/embedded-computing
Autonomous Vehicles: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/self-driving-cars/drive-platform/
Shipping cars with Tesla: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/self-driving-cars/partners/tesla/
Shipping consoles with Nintendo: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2016/10/20/nintendo-switch/
Started early with first OpenCL on GPU: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJ1jydg8mLg