Norton Pengra

Deep Learning Infrastructure Engineer
@NVIDIA

Contents:
- Experiences/Education
- Projects

Things I like to do:
- Rewriting Python in C and making it callable in Python for performance reasons
- Building RESTful APIs (and dashboards) in Django
- Solving problems that could be rephrased as MDP or POMDP problems
- Solving zero-sum problems
- Using statistical models to describe data (in Stan)
- Using BERT to solve basic NLP problems and wondering how it's so good at what it does
- Programming the tm4c1294ncpdt and seeing how hot I can make the board
- Destiny 2 Raids

Norton Pengra: AI/ML Enthusiast

Quick summary of my life:

Where I've Been

Deep Learning Infrastructure Engineer | NVIDIA
Aug 2020 - Present

Worked on a variety of projects, including:

  • Built a pipeline to allow GPU tracing software to run on Kubernetes clusters (originally SLURM)
  • Built infrastructure to record GPU performance data and wrapped a dashboard around it
  • General internal tool software quality upgrades

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science | Uni. of Washington
Jun 2018 - Aug 2020

Selected coursework:

  • Mathematics of Gerrymandering Undergraduate Research Project (MATH399)
  • Software Design/Implementation (CSE331)
  • Data Structures & Parallelization (CSE332)
  • Software Engineering Capstone (CSE403)
  • Machine Learning (CSE446)
  • Artificial Intelligence (CSE471)
  • Natural Language Processing Capstone (CSE481N)
  • [Click to see all CS coursework]

Associates of Arts | Edmonds C.C.
Nov 2016 - May 2018

Software Developer Apprentice | Microsoft
Jun 2016 - Oct 2016

Wrote a tool for hardware vendors to migrate Azure cloud service application models to virtual machine scalable set models on Azure. Tool was shipped to vendors such as HP and Dell.

Various Startups
May 2016 - Jun 2016

Shortly after graduation of Code Fellows, I jumped around a few startups trying to find a living. I did some cool things, such as:

  • Built landing pages using ReactJS
  • Built a tool that leveraged Google PubSub
  • Built RESTful APIs to connect with the IOT
  • Deployed numerous Python projects to AWS, Bluemix & Azure

Python Software Development Certificate | Code Fellows
Mar 2016 - Jun 2016

Contractor | GESi
Mar 2016

Automated Windows 10 customization for ever 1k Microsoft Surface Devices for the Microsoft CXO event using Python. Reduced company costs for event by 50%.

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Apr 2015 - Mar 2016

Non-tech related occupation.

Full Stack Internship | Helpful Human
Jul 2015 - Sep 2015

Learned about git workflow, MVC models, and built fullstack applications using Laravel on PHP with an Angular front end. This was my first exposure to the "real" tech world.

Contractor | GESi
Nov 2014 - Jan 2015

Unloaded, Imaged, Inventoried and loaded tech for shipping and shows.

Projects

Project Rakan
Gerrymandering Analysis Library

Designed and built a library for processing GIS data into graphs to analyze gerrymandering.
C/C++, Python, Cython

Project LabWatch
High School Library Usage Tracker

A SaaS project that served local high schools helping librarians gain funding by tracking library usage.
Python, Django, ReactJS