# Karl Ding

> DRIVE OS @ NVIDIA | Computer Science @ uWaterloo

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/karlding

UWaterloo Computer Science. 2 years of combined internship experience.

I used to build solar cars in my spare time.

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## Work Experience
### Senior System Software Engineer @ NVIDIA
Jan 2024 – Present
Big moves on DRIVE OS things + NvStreams stuff

### Senior System Software Engineer @ NVIDIA
Jan 2021 – Present | Santa Clara, California, United States
Doing big DRIVE OS things + NvStreams things (with scope)

### System Software Engineer @ NVIDIA
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Santa Clara, CA
Bigger DRIVE OS things + NvStreams things

### System Software Engineer @ NVIDIA
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Santa Clara, CA
DRIVE OS and NvStreams things

### Firmware @ Midnight Sun Solar Rayce Car Team
Jan 2015 – Jan 2019 | Waterloo, ON
University of Waterloo solar car team.

Embedded Development (ARM Cortex M0) for the 12th car, MSXII (which placed 3rd at the 2018 American Solar Challenge):
- Created driver libraries for various peripherals
- Wrote code for Battery Management System 
- Wrote code for the Driver Controls boards
- Wrote the initial prototype code for the Motor Controller interface

Embedded Development (TI MSP430) for the 11th car, MSXI:
- Wrote C firmware for the Battery Management System (BMS), to monitor and react to changes in Li-ion battery pack health (voltage, current, temperature, etc.)
- Created driver libraries and abstractions for various ICs
- Assisted with board bringup

Infrastructure & Tooling:
- Automated building Vagrant images using Chef + Packer
- Wrote codegen tool for CAN messages
- Continuous Integration for all the things!

Telemetry:
- Designed the telemetry architecture for MS XII, which was instrumental in placing 3nd at ASC 2018
- Drove a migration towards using standard CAN tooling
- Wrote a Go proxy to proxy packets from the Tritium CAN-Ethernet Bridge over SocketCAN

Strategy:
- Used telemetry data to model and compute race strategy for the day

### System Software Intern - Tegra @ NVIDIA
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Santa Clara, CA
Linux kernel + device driver development on the Automotive Resource Manager team for virtualization on DRIVE AGX platforms

### Software Engineering (Embedded) @ Tesla
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Palo Alto, CA
Embedded development on the High Voltage Systems (BMS + HVP) for Model 3 (and other things using Model 3 platform)

### Software Developer @ TextNow
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Waterloo, ON
Full-stack development on the Calling and Core Product teams

### Software Engineer @ Sandvine
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Subscriber Policy Broker team building data warehouse and reporting features

### Software Developer @ Leonardo Worldwide Corporation
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Toronto, Canada Area


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
University of Waterloo
Jan 2014 – Jan 2019


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/karlding
- Website: https://justkding.me
- GitHub: https://github.com/karlding

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Last updated: 2026-03-22