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10 NVIDIA developer relations leaders
These ten NVIDIA developer relations leaders hold head, director and vice president roles in developer relations, developer programs and developer ecosystem work at NVIDIA, across regions and industries. A reader can learn how developer relations leaders work at NVIDIA from people who have held the role.
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01—10Ankit J. Patel
LinkedInExperience: VP Developer Ecosystem · NVIDIA
VP Developer Ecosystem at NVIDIA since March 2026, after serving as Sr. Director Developer Engagement (2021–2026), Director of Product Marketing (2019–2021) and Sr. Product Manager (2011–2019) at NVIDIA. He was earlier Director of Product, Production Switchers at Blackmagic Design.
Chad Vivoli
LinkedInExperience: Director; Developer Relations · NVIDIA
Director, Developer Relations at NVIDIA since March 2023, at director level in general management; his profile says he is responsible for NVIDIA's outreach into future display technology, including VR, AR and MR. He has been a Technical Evangelist at NVIDIA since 2008 and also held Dev Tech Engineer (2005–2006) and Automation Engineer (2002–2005) roles there.
Chu Zhang
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director, China Developer Relations and Game Content Management · NVIDIA
Senior Director, China Developer Relations and Game Content Management at NVIDIA since December 2020, based in Shanghai. Before that, Chu Zhang was Director of NVIDIA China Developer Relations & Content Management from 2008 to 2020, and earlier a Business Development Manager at Ageia Technologies.
Dr. Deb Goswami
LinkedInExperience: Head of Developer Ecosystems (APAC) · NVIDIA
Head of Developer Ecosystems (APAC) at NVIDIA since April 2025 and Head, Developer Programs (Big Data & Analytics), ASEAN & ANZ since March 2022, both listed at director level and based in Singapore. Earlier roles include Head of Data at SPH Media and Head of AI (NLP, Vision and Speech) MLOps at Traveloka.
Florian Gantert
LinkedInExperience: Director of Developer Relations EMEA · NVIDIA
Director of Developer Relations EMEA at NVIDIA since April 2026; his profile describes leading developer relations across EMEA and helping developers accelerate their applications. He was previously Director Global Business Development (2022–2026), Head of Automotive Enterprise in EMEA and Sales Manager for Autonomous Driving at NVIDIA.
George Scotto
LinkedInExperience: Director, Developer Relations EMEAI · NVIDIA
Director, Developer Relations EMEAI at NVIDIA since March 2025, after serving in NVIDIA's EMEAI developer relations team as Principal Account Manager (2022–2025), Senior Account Manager (2019–2022) and Account Manager (2017–2019). His profile describes working with video game publishers and developers to support their games, align on NVIDIA technologies and develop co-marketing. He was earlier Director, Business Development CRYENGINE at Crytek.
Jim Scott
LinkedInExperience: Global Head of Developer Relations, Python and Accelerated Computing · NVIDIA
Global Head of Developer Relations, Python and Accelerated Computing at NVIDIA since August 2021, a head-level role in the engineering and technical department. He was previously Head of Developer Relations, Data Science at NVIDIA (2019–2021) and Vice President, Enterprise Architecture at MapR Technologies (2014–2019).
Robert Partington
LinkedInExperience: Director of Global Developer Relations for Media & Entertainment · NVIDIA
Director of Global Developer Relations for Media & Entertainment at NVIDIA since April 2024, after serving as Industry Partnership Manager for Media & Entertainment at NVIDIA (2022–2024). He spent 2010 to 2022 at Apple as Sr. Partnership Manager in Worldwide Developer Relations for 3D/VFX, game engines and XR.
Shuo Zhang
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director, Developer Relations - Strategic Partnerships · NVIDIA
Senior Director, Developer Relations - Strategic Partnerships at NVIDIA since August 2026; the profile describes leading a developer relations team that works with large software and industrial technology companies to drive adoption of NVIDIA platforms across accelerated computing, enterprise AI and physical AI. Earlier roles include Head of WW Business Development & GTM, EC2 Accelerated Computing at AWS.
Will Ramey
LinkedInExperience: Sr. Director, Global Head of Developer Programs · NVIDIA
Sr. Director, Global Head of Developer Programs at NVIDIA since February 2018, after serving as Director, Developer Programs (2016–2018) and Sr. Product Manager (2003–2016) at NVIDIA. He also served on the NVIDIA Foundation Board of Directors from 2009 to 2011.
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