Dan Stahlke
Senior Systems Software Engineer at NVIDIA
Hillsboro, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDan Stahlke is a Senior Systems Software Engineer with 16 years of experience building high-performance computational geometry and numerical linear algebra systems, now applying that expertise to CUDA at NVIDIA after a long tenure at Intel. He blends deep research pedigree—a PhD in quantum information from Carnegie Mellon—with practical systems work from GIS tools and image-processing pipelines to performance-critical C++ and CUDA code. His open-source contributions range from low-level binary I/O improvements in cnpy to usability enhancements in the widely used Android-Terminal-Emulator, showing attention to both memory-safe, portable implementations and user-facing interaction details. Known for squeezing efficiency out of algorithms and hardware, he has a track record of turning research-grade methods into production-ready software and even shipped a licensed GIS application early in his career.
16 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Physics, nonlinear dynamics, 4.0 GPA, MS, Physics, nonlinear dynamics, 4.0 GPA at University of Alaska FairbanksDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Physics, quantum information, 4.0 GPA, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Physics, quantum information, 4.0 GPA at Carnegie Mellon University
Stackoverflow
1,439reputation
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21answers
12questions
gnuplot
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Github Skills (28)
c-language10
mobile-development10
terminal-emulator10
android-development10
java10
numpy10
mobile-application10
javas10
gesture-recognition10
fileio10
file-handling10
file-processing10
file-access10
cprogramming-language10
user-interface9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
jackpal/Android-Terminal-Emulator
Jun 2013 - Jul 2013
A VT-100 terminal emulator for the Android OS
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:15 commits in 23 days
Contributions summary:Dan primarily focused on enhancing the Android terminal emulator's user interaction and feature set. Their contributions include implementing mouse event handling, such as click and fling gestures, to enable mouse tracking within the terminal. They also introduced a preference setting to control mouse event behavior and improved the alignment of mouse clicks. These changes directly improved the terminal's usability and feature parity with desktop terminal emulators.
androidterminal-emulator
rogersce/cnpy
Aug 2014 - Aug 2014
library to read/write .npy and .npz files in C/C++
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Dan primarily focused on enhancing the `cnpy` library for reading and writing `.npy` and `.npz` files in C/C++. Their contributions include fixing an endian test, addressing compiler warnings by removing unused parameters, and optimizing the code by using `size_t` for sizes. They also focused on improving memory management and updating the codebase by utilizing portable data types.
cpp
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