In this episode, Conor and Bryce chat with Marco Salgado about his journey from no programming experience to NVIDIA in < 3.5 years.

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About the Guest:

Marco is a software engineer at NVIDIA, where he works on improving the nvCOMP library, which offers fast GPU implementations of multiple data compression formats. For the past couple of months he has been working on a GPU implementation of the rotate algorithm.

Show Notes

Date Recorded: 2026-04-23
Date Released: 2026-04-24

ADSP Episode 237: Thrust with Jared Hoberock
NVIDIA CCCL
NVIDIA nvCOMP
NVIDIA Nsight Systems
NVIDIA Nsight Compute
C++TO Meetup: Parrot - Array GPU Programming

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Episode 283: From 0 Programming to NVIDIA in < 3.5 Years