About

Venu Madumbu is a highly experienced Director of Engineering in Automotive SW at NVIDIA, with a passion for hiring and leading talented embedded software engineers to build safe and efficient Autonomous Vehicle (AV) platforms. With almost two decades of experience in the field, Venu is a hands-on architect and engineer with expertise in image, video, graphics, signal processing, and algorithms. He also has experience in heterogeneous computing and performance benchmarking, hardware and software architecture, scalable and reusable software architectures and frameworks, parallel processing (CUDA), and computer vision and machine/deep learning techniques. Venu is extremely passionate about new technologies, including AI and autonomous driving, and is always looking for innovative approaches to solving technology-related problems while upholding design principles of reuse, scalability, and KISS (Containment of Complexity). He is dedicated to learning and sharing knowledge, and his LinkedIn profile showcases his desire to hire and work with like-minded individuals who share his passion for technology and innovation. Prior to his current role, Venu held senior engineering manager and engineering manager positions at NVIDIA, where he focused on DRIVE OS functionalities, features, requirements, feasibility/proof of concept, performance analysis, and benchmarking. He also worked on ISP SIL, AUTOSAR MCU firmware, use case modeling and performance measurement frameworks, safety services, and adaptive AUTOSAR. Venu holds a Master of Technology degree in Digital Signal Processing from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and a Bachelor of Technology degree in Electronics & Communications from Sri Krishnadevaraya University. His technical skills include senior software engineering, computer vision, AI, and deep learning. With almost 20 years of relevant experience, Venu is a highly skilled and knowledgeable professional who is dedicated to building cutting-edge autonomous vehicle platforms.