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Val Kotlarov Hoffman

Principal Systems Architect | AI Performance Engineering

  • πŸ”­ Current Focus: Hardware-aware LLM optimization, GPU orchestration, and custom Triton kernels.
  • πŸš€ Nebius Academy: Mastering high-performance infrastructure for the Israel National AI Supercomputer.
  • πŸ› οΈ Experience: 25+ years in low-level R&D, from compilers to high-frequency trading engines.

πŸ› οΈ Featured Projects

An advanced rendering engine for IDEs that transforms standard code comments into rich Markdown and LaTeX environments.

  • Context-Aware Visualization: Seamlessly renders documentation, mathematical formulas, and checklists directly in the editor.
  • Workflow Optimized: Designed for high-performance "vibe-coding" and agentic IDEs like Antigravity, Windsurf, and Cursor.
  • Privacy-First: Fully proprietary and optimized for professional system architecture documentation.

πŸ§ͺ Performance Labs (Nebius Academy)

I am documenting my deep-dive into AI Performance Engineering here:


πŸ’Ό Strategic Engineering Leadership

Founder & CTO | vkhey! Mar 2025 – Present

  • Architecting high-performance multimodal RAG systems (text, video, audio) for enterprise scale.
  • Bridging 25 years of systems engineering into the "plumbing" of the agentic AI era.

Principal Developer | Labguru May 2023 – Mar 2025

  • Engineered a first-of-its-kind cross-server communication platform for distributed lab environments.
  • Led technical implementation for ISO 27001, GDPR, and SOC 2 compliance in high-security environments.

Principal Developer | Kando Jan 2021 – Mar 2023

  • Tech lead for the National COVID-19 monitoring project, managing massive IoT data streams.
  • Optimized data-processing algorithms and high-performance dashboards for national-scale infrastructure.

Principal R&D Dev | SeekingAlpha Jul 2015 – Jul 2020

  • Built multi-million dollar ad products and high-throughput analytics pipelines for 20M+ monthly users.

πŸ›  The Polyglot Foundation

Note: While I am a polyglot (Python, Ruby, Node.js, Go, C#, C++), I specialize in System Design where the choice of tool is dictated by hardware constraints and performance requirements. Currently spending my days in Triton and C++ to squeeze every TFLOP out of the H100.


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