Devavret Makkar

Devavret Makkar is a Senior Software Engineer at NVIDIA working on the RAPIDS team, focusing on GPU-accelerated data analytics. Devavret holds an M.S. degree in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Posts by Devavret Makkar

Data Science Jul 08, 2026

Running Low-Latency Analytical Workloads with GPU-Accelerated Presto on NVIDIA GB200 NVL72

Presto is an open source, distributed SQL engine for running fast, interactive queries on very large datasets. On NVIDIA GPUs, Presto delivers peak performance... 8 MIN READ

Data Science Oct 06, 2025

Accelerating Large-Scale Data Analytics with GPU-Native Velox and NVIDIA cuDF

Beginning August 11, 2026, the RAPIDS brand transitioned to CUDA-X. All library functionality remains the same. Learn more about CUDA-X for Data Science. As... 7 MIN READ

Data Science May 27, 2022

Boosting Data Ingest Throughput with GPUDirect Storage and RAPIDS cuDF

If you work in data analytics, you know that data ingest is often the bottleneck of data preprocessing workflows. Getting data from storage and decoding it can... 14 MIN READ