10 NVIDIA solutions architects
Titles held today by these ten NVIDIA solutions architects include Distinguished Engineer / Solutions Architect, Principal Solutions Architect, Sr. Solutions Architect Manager and Director, Solutions Architects. A reader can learn what solutions architect work at NVIDIA involves from people who have done it.
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Abubakr Karali
LinkedInExperience: Senior Solutions Architect | Physical AI · NVIDIA
Abubakr Karali has been Senior Solutions Architect | Physical AI at NVIDIA since August 2026, based in the Greater Stockholm area. Abubakr Karali's other NVIDIA rows are Senior Solutions Architect, Sovereign AI, Global (2025 to 2026), Senior Solutions Architect, Metropolis, EMEA (2022 to 2025) and Senior Solutions Architect, Smart Spaces, EMEA (2020 to 2022).
Amit Kushwaha
LinkedInExperience: Principal Solutions Architect · NVIDIA
Amit Kushwaha has been Principal Solutions Architect at NVIDIA since November 2025, based in the Greater Cambridge area. At SambaNova, Amit Kushwaha was Director of AI Engineering (2023 to 2025) and Architect - AI for Science | High-Performance Computing (2022 to 2023); they were Head of Artificial Intelligence at EarthScan by Mitiga Solutions (2021 to 2022) and Principal Data Scientist at ExxonMobil (2020 to 2021).
Askar Nurbekov
LinkedInExperience: Solutions Architect · NVIDIA
Askar Nurbekov has been Solutions Architect at NVIDIA since February 2026, based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Askar Nurbekov held a Professor of Practice Industry track row at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (2021 to 2026), worked as an AI Engineer at Logical Health (2025) and ZenGuard (2024), and was a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at the Ministry of Finance Kazakhstan (2017 to 2019).
Farshad Rafiei
LinkedInExperience: Senior Solutions Architect · NVIDIA
Farshad Rafiei has been Senior Solutions Architect at NVIDIA since February 2026, based in San Jose, California. At IQVIA, Farshad Rafiei was Senior AI Engineer (2025 to 2026) and Machine Learning Scientist (2022 to 2025), and was a Graduate Research Assistant at the Georgia Institute of Technology (2020 to 2022).
Kartik Sachdev
LinkedInExperience: Senior Solutions Architect · NVIDIA
Kartik Sachdev has been Senior Solutions Architect at NVIDIA since April 2026, based in Munich, and was Solutions Architect there from 2024 to 2026. Kartik Sachdev was a Werkstudent: Computer Vision Engineer at Siemens (2022 to 2024) and a Research And Development Engineer at TBK Co., Ltd. (2016 to 2019).
Ken Hester
LinkedInExperience: Director, Solutions Architects · NVIDIA
Ken Hester has been Director, Solutions Architects at NVIDIA since June 2022, and was Solutions Architect Manager (2019 to 2022) and Senior Solutions Architect (2014 to 2019) there. Ken Hester describes leading global HPC and AI solutions architecture at NVIDIA, and was Principal Architect at Bluware (2010 to 2014).
Ryan Olson
LinkedInExperience: Distinguished Engineer / Solutions Architect · NVIDIA
Ryan Olson has been Distinguished Engineer / Solutions Architect at NVIDIA since March 2025, based in Golden, Colorado. Ryan Olson also lists Principal Solutions Architect (since 2019) and Solutions Architect (since 2016) rows at NVIDIA, and was a Performance Engineer at Cray Inc. (2007 to 2016).
Sadaf Rasool
LinkedInExperience: Senior AI/ML Solutions Architect · NVIDIA
Sadaf Rasool has been Senior AI/ML Solutions Architect at NVIDIA since May 2026, based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Sadaf Rasool was a Machine Learning Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (2022 to 2026), a Software Development Engineer at OPENLANE (2020 to 2022) and a Software Engineer at American Express (2015 to 2020).
Saurabh Aggarwal
LinkedInExperience: Partner Solutions Architect, AI | META · NVIDIA
Saurabh Aggarwal has been Partner Solutions Architect, AI | META at NVIDIA since April 2026, based in Dubai, and was Senior Solutions Architect, Cloud AI there from 2024 to 2026. Saurabh Aggarwal was a Data Scientist at Microsoft (2023 to 2024) and a Machine Learning Engineer at Apple (2019 to 2021).
Tim Woodard
LinkedInExperience: Sr. Solutions Architect Manager · NVIDIA
Tim Woodard has been Sr. Solutions Architect Manager at NVIDIA since November 2025, based in Springfield, Ohio. Tim Woodard's other NVIDIA rows are Principal Solutions Architect (2025) and Sr. Solutions Architect (2016 to 2025); they were Chief Technology Officer at Diamond Visionics (2014 to 2016).
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