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10 Nvidia engineering leaders
These ten Nvidia engineering leaders are vice presidents, senior directors and directors of engineering at NVIDIA. Readers can learn from their work on GPU software, simulation, deep learning frameworks, AI infrastructure and circuit design.
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01—10Christian Sarofeen
LinkedInExperience: Director of Engineering for Deep Learning Frameworks · NVIDIA
Director of Engineering for Deep Learning Frameworks at NVIDIA since July 2022; the profile lists leading development of PyTorch and JAX on NVIDIA GPUs and development of NVIDIA/Fuser (nvFuser) for automatic code generation of deep learning operators. Other NVIDIA rows are Senior Engineering Manager of the PyTorch Frameworks Team (2019–2022), PyTorch Engineering Manager (2019) and PyTorch Engineering Technical Lead (2017–2019).
Kabriel Robichaux
LinkedInExperience: Director of Engineering, AI Infrastructure · NVIDIA
Director of Engineering, AI Infrastructure at NVIDIA since September 2019, listed at director level in the Engineering and Technical department. The profile also lists Engineering Director roles at Level (2018–2019) and TapInfluence (2016–2017), and Co-Founder & Architect at StageHound (2013–2016).
Karthick Iyer
LinkedInExperience: Vice President, Software Engineering · NVIDIA
Vice President, Software Engineering at NVIDIA since September 2018; the profile says he leads large global teams delivering software solutions across generative and physical AI. His profile also lists Head of OS and Technologies, FireOS at Amazon Lab126 (2016–2018) and Vice President, Engineering (Global Android Engineering Lead) at Qualcomm (2015).
Kutty Banerjee
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director of Engineering · NVIDIA
Senior Director of Engineering at NVIDIA since November 2020; the profile describes GeForce NOW platform architecture work, where the team designs, maintains and optimizes the hardware platform driving NVIDIA's cloud graphics and inference. The profile also lists Software Architect at NVIDIA (2005–2013), Principal Engineer Engineering Manager at Apple (2013–2019) and Engineering Manager at Google (2019–2020).
Oluwatobi Olabiyi
LinkedInExperience: Director of Engineering · NVIDIA
Director of Engineering at NVIDIA since March 2025, with a headline citing language, speech, vision and multimodal model development; a Senior Engineering Manager row at NVIDIA from 2021 is also listed as current. The profile also lists Senior Manager, AI Research at Capital One (2017–2021).
Qi Luo
LinkedInExperience: Distinguished Engineer and Director of Engineering · NVIDIA
Distinguished Engineer and Director of Engineering at NVIDIA since February 2024; the profile headline places the role in autonomous vehicles. The profile also lists Baidu USA roles including Senior Principal Software Architect (2022–2024) and Principal Software Architect, Sr Engineering Manager (2020–2022).
Rajesh Patil
LinkedInExperience: Director, Datacenter Engineering · NVIDIA
Director, Datacenter Engineering at NVIDIA since March 2021, listed at director level in the Engineering and Technical department. The profile also lists Vice President at Ascava Inc (2014–2020), Director of Engineering at Cisco (2005–2013) and Co-Founder & Vice-President of Hardware Design at Vihana Inc (2001–2005).
Tae Kim
LinkedInExperience: Vice President of Engineering, Simulation Technology and Omniverse · NVIDIA
Vice President of Engineering, Simulation Technology and Omniverse at NVIDIA since June 2022, after serving as Senior Director, Omniverse and Graphic AI at NVIDIA (2018–2022). The profile says he leads engineering for simulation and describes his work on sensor-accurate environments that train physical AI. He was also Vice President, Graphics R&D at Samsung Electronics (2015–2018).
Tezaswi Raja
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director of Engineering · NVIDIA
Senior Director of Engineering at NVIDIA since May 2024; the profile says the role manages the VLSI Circuit Solutions Group and drives cross-functional teams focused on architecting circuits to improve security, clocking and power. Other NVIDIA roles listed are Director Of Engineering (2020–2024), Sr. Design Engineering Manager (2016–2020) and Design Engineering Manager (2012–2016).
Todd Mostak
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director of Engineering, RAPIDS · NVIDIA
Senior Director of Engineering, RAPIDS at NVIDIA since July 2025; the profile says he is building out SQL-on-GPU with NVIDIA RAPIDS. His profile also lists CTO Co-founder at HEAVY.AI (2021–2025) and CEO Co-founder at HEAVY.AI (2014–2021, and again in 2025).
Choose the right perspective
Match the person's engineering area to your question, since software, AI model, data center and circuit design teams face very different problems. Pick a vice president or senior director for questions about organizing large teams, and a director for hands-on questions about a specific platform.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How do you structure engineering teams that ship software tightly coupled to new GPU hardware?
- 02What does it take to make an open-source framework run efficiently on a vendor's accelerators?
- 03How do you plan data center and AI infrastructure capacity for fast-growing model training workloads?
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