# Norton P.

> Deep Learning @ NVIDIA

Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/norton

Not interested in a new position.

Things I like to do:
- Rewriting Python in C and making it callable in Python for performance reasons
- Building RESTful APIs (and dashboards) in Django
- Solving problems that could be rephrased as MDP or POMDP problems
- Solving zero-sum problems
- Using statistical models to describe data (in Stan)
- Using BERT to solve basic NLP problems and wondering how it's so good at what it does
- Programming the tm4c1294ncpdt and seeing how hot I can make the board
- Supporting the researchers with internal tools and infrastructure

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ NVIDIA
Jan 2023 – Present | Seattle, Washington, United States
Designing & building a suite of Python tools to assist admins and engineers deploy a hardware agnostic Slurm 22 cluster. Clusters must support a myriad of permutations of pre-release GPUs, operating systems, CPUs, drivers, vbios, etc. These internal clusters are commonly used by internal teams such as TensorRT and DLSim.

### Software Engineer @ NVIDIA
Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | Seattle, Washington, United States
- Built a pipeline to allow GPU tracing software to run on Kubernetes clusters (originally SLURM)
- Built infrastructure to record GPU/CPU/System performance data of deep learning inference
- Connected a react + elasticsearch powered dashboard to MLPerf and TensorRT team DL performance pipelines to track neural networks performance over different chip/driver combinations
- Created a tool to classify DL networks given topology + determine category of DL network (E.g. NLP, CV, etc)
- General internal tool software quality upgrades
- Create and maintain microservices that communicate with SLURM & other internal tools.
- Prototype dashboards in streamlit/jupyter notebooks and develop them into React Apps
- Developed major components of a Python CLI toolchain to deploy slurm 22 to empower other engineers to test the latest and greatest ML Models on the latest and greatest GPUs.

### Assistant Instructor @ Code Fellows
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Greater Seattle Area
Assistant Instructor for the Code Fellows 201 Class

### Software Developer Apprentice @ Microsoft
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Redmond, Washington, United States
Migrate Azure Cloud Service application models to Virtual Machine scalable set models on Microsoft Azure

### Software Developer @ OrbSense Technologies LLC
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Greater Seattle Area
Built Django apps with RESTful APIs and deployed them to IBM Bluemix and Amazon AWS.

### Contractor @ GESi
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Redmond, Washington
Automated Windows 10 customization for over 1000 Microsoft Surface Devices for the Microsoft CXO event using Python; Reduced company costs for event by 50%.

### Substitute Teacher @ Childhaven
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Greater Seattle Area
Unrelated to my current field, but I credit this environment for defining most of my character. It was here where I provided neglected and abused kids and infants with love and care.

### Full Stack Intern @ Helpful Human
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Greater Seattle Area
Learned about Git workflow, MVC models and built fullstack applications using Laravel on PHP with an Angular front end.

### Preschool Teacher @ Trinity Lutheran Church
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Greater Seattle Area
Carefully monitored children's play activities and maintained a sanitary learning environment.

### Contractor @ GESI
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Redmond, Washington
Unloaded, Imaged, Inventoried and loaded tech for shipping and shows.


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science & Engineering
University of Washington
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020

### Associate’s Degree in DTA-AA
Edmonds College
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018

### Certificate in Advanced Python Software Development
Code Fellows
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/nortonpengra
- Website: http://qwergram.github.io

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Last updated: 2026-03-22