# Elias Martinez Cohen

> Software Engineer building distributed AI infrastructure systems and ML operations for NVIDIA AV

Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/eliasmartinezcohen

I am a systems software engineer with a demonstrated ability of building and deploying machine learning infrastructure and modern web architectures at scale. I have built high-performance compute and machine learning services for both startups and tech giants. I also have experience engineering web applications front-to-back on various software stacks.

I am skilled in Go, JavaScript, and Python among others. I have deployed and maintained applications on public clouds such as AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure as well as in private data centers to power software solutions both big and small. Notably, I helped design and build the ML model production pipeline at Twitter Cortex. I am currently working on the future of autonomous vehicle software at NVIDIA.

## Work Experience
### Sr. System Software Engineer @ NVIDIA
Jan 2021 – Present | Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States

### Sr. System Software Engineer @ NVIDIA
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | New York, NY

### Co-Founder & CTO @ Discrete New York
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Manhattan
• Founded and piloted this CRM-focused startup through initial seed round
• Led all software design & development
• Built serverless web app with React/Node.js backend on AWS Lambda
• Deployed an ElasticSearch service and developed advanced facet-search API and frontend UI
• Built & maintained Lambda functions for chronological data ETL jobs
• Developed a proof-of-concept NLP service for contract law automation
• Supervised 3-person remote development team

### Software Engineer @ Twitter
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Manhattan, NY
• Created internal tooling to manage large Machine Learning datasets
• Built web app to monitor ML jobs in real-time w/ integrated analytics and d3/Dygraphs visualizations 
• Developed macOS (Swift) and web (React.js) demo apps for conferences and showcases (work presented at GTC 2016)
• Promoted to SWE II
• Built native Swift app with Scala backend to expedite human labeling for supervised learning tasks
• Helped build the core ML production platform at Twitter, written in Lua/Torch7
• Faced several management changes; survived 3 rounds of layoffs in period of financial dismay

### Lead Consultant @ Brown University Multimedia Labs
Jan 2012 – Jan 2015 | Providence, RI

### Teaching Assistant @ Brown University Multimedia Labs
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Providence, RI
Assisted Professor Mark Tribe in teaching Radical Media (Fall 2012) and Digital Art (Spring 2013) offered by the Modern Culture and Media Department.

### Web Developer + Designer @ MADBITS
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Manhattan, NY
• Oversaw all graphic design & branding, created company logos and brand book
• Designed and implemented proprietary web app on JQuery/Node stack
• Worked closely with agile 6-person team
• Company acquired by Twitter, July 2014, to become the founding ML team at Twitter Cortex

### Web Developer (Temp) @ Rhizome.org
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Manhattan, NY


## Education
### AB in Computer Science
Brown University
Jan 2011 – Jan 2015

### RISD


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/eliath

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Last updated: 2026-03-22