Andrew Seidl
Principal Engineer, AI ML Infrastructure at Vultr
Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, United States
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Top SchoolAndrew Seidl is a Principal Engineer, AI/ML Infrastructure at Vultr with 14 years of experience building high-performance, production-grade compute and storage systems. He blends hardware-aware performance engineering and build/CI expertise—authoring GPU and CPU compute kernels (cuDF, Velox), rearchitecting engines for CPU-only execution, and improving tiered storage for distributed analytics. An active open-source contributor, he has optimized backend code in heavyai/heavydb (adding custom S3 endpoints, multi-format import support, Thrift authentication, sanitizers and Ubuntu 20.04 compatibility) and improved build automation for projectchrono with CDash and auto-versioning. His research background includes porting simulation stacks to C++, CUDA and Julia and delivering a 125x CPU speedup for real-time terrain deformation, showing a rare ability to turn research performance gains into production systems. Based in Oconomowoc, WI, Andrew pairs a mechanical engineering graduate education with deep systems and DevOps instincts, managing GPU clusters, CI pipelines, and complex releases to scale ML infrastructure.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
University of Wisconsin-MadisonMaschinenbau (Mechanical Engineering), Maschinenbau (Mechanical Engineering) at Fachhochschule LübeckBachelor of Science (BS), Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Mechanical Engineering at Milwaukee School of Engineering
English, German
Github Skills (27)
c-language10
back-end-development10
cmake10
build-automation10
thrift10
boost10
c-programming-language10
testing9
buildsystem9
google-test9
googletest9
file-handling8
file-processing8
file-access8
performance-optimization8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
heavyai/heavydb
Jun 2015 - Aug 2022
HeavyDB (formerly OmniSciDB)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:1140 commits, 56 PRs, 517 pushes in 7 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily worked on optimizing and refactoring code for the heavyai/heavydb repository. They improved type checking with Boost libraries, added support for Google Test within the project structure, and integrated new functionalities related to data import, by adding features such as including custom s3 endpoints, as well as supporting a number of different file formats. Additionally, they contributed to enhancements within the Thrift interface, ensuring that certain methods were now authenticated. They were also involved in configuring features related to the codebase such as the use of code sanitization and added support for Ubuntu 20.04.
cudareal-timevisualizationgpuheavyai
projectchrono/chrono
Feb 2011 - Mar 2017
High-performance C++ library for multiphysics and multibody dynamics simulations
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Build Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Build Automation EngineerContributions:110 commits, 12 PRs, 63 pushes in 6 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily focused on improving the build process and fixing compilation issues. They addressed system-specific compilation problems by modifying preprocessor directives and include statements. Additionally, the user added support for CDash and auto-generated version information, demonstrating a focus on build automation and continuous integration. They also corrected code formatting, updated documentation, and fixed a memory leak.
c-plus-plussimulationroboticssimulationsmultibody
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