About

Bharatkumar Sharma is a seasoned professional with over 10 years of experience in performance and parallel computing. He is currently working as a GPU Advocate at NVIDIA, where he is responsible for developing the GPU curriculum and moderating and mentoring at GPU Hackathons. Bharatkumar is a skilled relationship manager with experience dealing with customers for business development and project implementation. As a software architect and consultant, Bharatkumar has expertise in designing for non-functional requirements. He has extensive development and research experience in the field of software architecture, distributed, and parallel computing. Bharatkumar has published papers and journal articles in the field of parallel computing and software architecture. Bharatkumar has worked as a Senior Solutions Architect at NVIDIA, where he was responsible for benchmarking and porting key HPC and deep learning applications. He has also evangelized NVIDIA technology at various seminars, conferences, and user forums and organized seminars on deep learning and CUDA. Bharatkumar has strengthened the CUDA ecosystem by collaborating with industries, academia, and research labs and publishing research papers and patents. Prior to NVIDIA, Bharatkumar worked at Siemens as a Technical Expert, where he delivered and provided support for non-functional requirements to the company's business units. He also provided consultation for software migration to the latest heterogeneous parallel architectures and provoked thought leadership in the form of workshops for industry and academia. Bharatkumar contributed to the organization's knowledge base by publishing research papers and patents. Bharatkumar holds an MTech degree in IT from the International Institute of Information Technology and a BTech degree in IT from Sinhgad College of Engineering. He has relevant experience of 15.11 years and is proficient in CUDA, MPI, OpenCL, OpenMP, pThreads, software design, and architecture, and migration strategies for parallel architecture.