Jake Hemstad is a senior developer technology engineer at NVIDIA, where he works on developing high-performance CUDA C++ software for accelerating data analytics. He cares equally about developing high-quality software as much as he does achieving optimal GPU performance, and is an advocate for modern C++ design. Before NVIDIA, he attended graduate school at the University of Minnesota where he worked with Sandia National Laboratories on task-parallel HPC runtimes and sparse linear solvers.