# Mark Morra

> Software Engineer

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

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer - Platform @ Quadric
Jan 2023 – Present | Burlingame, California, United States

### Machine Learning Framework Developer @ CoreAVI
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022
• Improved runtime of C++ Vulkan GPU based DO-178 compliant AI inference engine from 150ms to 70ms,
by improving host program, optimizing host device memory transfers and improving the GPU kernel
• Wrote Vulkan HLSL GPU Compute kernel to perform mean pooling operation in neural network, which
allowed the AI inference engine to successfully run the vgg16 and vgg18 neural networks
• Made presentations and gave talks internally in the company about Vulkan and GPU compute, focusing on
how to design Vulkan host applications and high performance high parallelism GPU kernels
• Created testing tools to measure kernel performance and correctness automatically for new iterations

### GPU Software Developer, Trajectory Generation @ Embark Trucks
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Wrote CUDA kernels for high efficiency C++ CUDA application for real time collision detection, using
multi-resolution and vectorization, was able to achieve fast, sub 10ms runtime
• Developed a variety of online & offline profiling tools, to analytically determine performance of algorithms
• Achieved 30% algorithm speedup by creating automated scripts to tune function parameters

### Driver Developer, Display Solutions @ AMD
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Markham, Ontario, Canada
• Primarily developed fixes for bugs reported in the display abstraction layer of AMD’s C++ graphics driver
• Investigated and analyzed bugs using winDbg, and created reproducible setups for the bugs

### Embedded Driver Developer @ CoreAVI
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
• Performed first 64-bit Linux port of CoreAVI’s DO-178 safety critical Vulkan SC2 AMD graphics driver
• Developed a Vulkan app in C to superimpose an image detection neural network’s output on the input image
• Designed and setup a GPU compute demo using MIVisonX that will be used at future trade shows

### Software Design Engineer @ Evertz
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Burlington, Ontario
• Designed and implemented high efficiency video color conversion algorithm using Intel Intrinsics and C++
• Developed GPU accelerated C++ application to resize video using Nvidia’s NPPI graphics library
• Maintained and upgraded many multithreaded programs that dealt with aspects of video rendering

### Systems Administrator @ CoreAVI
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Waterloo, ON


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
University of Waterloo

### Ancaster High School


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-10