Vivek Jain
Senior Software Engineer at NVIDIA
Milpitas, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVivek Jain is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience specializing in systems, networking, and high-performance software using Python, C, and C++. He holds an MTech from NITK Surathkal and is pursuing a PhD at UC Riverside, blending rigorous academic research with production engineering. Vivek has built low-latency access and AQM/L4S systems at Tarana and contributed TCP pacing, ECN tweaks, and BBR support to the widely used ns-3 network simulator, showing a strong open-source footprint in network protocol development. His internships and collaborations at Google and Juniper focused on congestion control and inter-metro traffic, connecting research ideas to real-world infrastructure. Now at NVIDIA, he applies that networking and systems expertise to AI training and inference pipelines, uniquely bridging packet-level optimization with large-scale AI systems.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science at Shri Guru Gobind Singhji Institute of Engineering and Technology, Vishnupuri, NandedDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at University of California, RiversideMaster of Technology (MTech) Computer Science, Master of Technology (MTech) Computer Science at National Institute of Technology Karnataka
English, Hindi, Marathi
Github Skills (6)
ip10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
linux-kernel10
network-protocol10
tcp10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
nsnam/ns-3-dev-git
Dec 2017 - Jun 2021
GitHub read-only mirror of ns-3-dev repository, will be kept in sync with main GitLab.com repository. Please DO NOT file pull requests here; instead, file issues and merge requests at https://gitlab.com/nsnam/ns-3-dev/
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:29 commits in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Vivek implemented TCP pacing functionality, a key feature for controlling and optimizing network traffic. They added attributes related to pacing, including enabling/disabling pacing, setting the maximum pacing rate, and integrating pacing within the `TcpSocketBase` class. Additionally, the user introduced a `RateOps` class with a Linux implementation to calculate rate samples and integrated it with the `TcpSocketBase`. They further modified code related to Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN), added BBR congestion control algorithm to TCP.
ns3
Vivek-anand-jain/ns-3-dev-git
Mar 2018 - Nov 2018
Experimental GitHub read-only mirror of ns-3 development repository, will be kept in sync with original Mercurial repository; pull requests not accepted at the moment.
Contributions:79 commits, 4 PRs, 198 pushes in 8 months
mercurialns3
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