# Nikolay Lukash

> Software Engineer

Location: Mountain View, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/nikolaylukash

Technology/Language experience:
  - C                    strong knowledge
  - C++               strong knowledge 
  - Java              strong knowledge
  - OpenGL        good knowledge
  - OpenCL        excellent knowledge
  - Matlab          good knowledge
  - Python          good knowledge
  - Airflow          good knowledge
  - Pig Latin       good knowledge
  -MapReduce   good knowledge
  
Specialized in: algorithms, low-level programming, GPU-programming, computer graphics, distributed systems, high performance programming, Machine Learning, Big Data.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Aurora
Jan 2023 – Present | Mountain View, California, United States
Mapping/Localization: Building large scale 3D maps from sensor data

### Staff Software Engineer @ Plus
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Santa Clara County, California, United States
Planning

### Senior Software Engineer @ Cruise
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
Control and Planning team

### Senior Software Engineer @ MZ
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | Palo Alto
• Redesigning and improving bidding system part
• Redesigning data products, making them more efficient and more scalable

### Software Engineer @ MZ
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Member of Technical Staff @ VMware
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area
* Redesigned and rebuilt log analyzer tool for VMWare products that helps troubleshoot failures and saves a lot of
engineering time. Technologies were used: Python, Django, mySQL, C++.
* Feature development and testing of DRS component on VCenter. Mainly C++

### Software Engineer @ RTT
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014
working on distributed rendering in a High Performance Computing environment. Working with Equalizer (http://www.equalizergraphics.com/) open source project.

### Intern Software Engineer @ Siemens
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012
worked in the area of Video Research & Development. Developed an RTSP video streaming client part for iOS devices (iPad)

### Intern Software Engineer @ Vienna University of Technology
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Munich
worked with iterative solvers for linear systems, implemented SPAI algorithm within the open source library ViennaCL. Used technologies: C++, OpenCL. Have also used generic programming for C++. Project done as heterogeneous: CPU-GPU programming.

Presented results in a paper at the High Performance Computing Symposium 2012 on a conference SCS. Presented paper: “Sparse approximate inverse preconditioners for iterative solvers on GPUs”  by Mykola Lukash, Karl Rupp, Siegfried Selberherr.

### Junior software engineer @ DIOsoft
Jan 2008 – Jan 2009 | Kiev
Specialized in computer graphics. Programmed inside local Engine, solving minor problems, involving geometry algorithms, basic OpenGL programming.


## Education
### Master of Computer Applications (M.C.A.) in Computer Science
Technical University of Munich

### Bachelor's degree in Applied Mathematics
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/nikolay-lukash-b2780420
- Portfolio: http://nikolay-lukash.blogspot.de/

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Last updated: 2026-04-12