Grace Howard

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Software Engineer at Nvidia · Elixir, low-latency systems

Nvidia
Boston, MA · ET (UTC-5)
1+ years experience
MIT
English, German
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Overview

I work on real-time systems at Nvidia in Boston. Moved 75% of real-time traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident. Shipped 27 launches on the real-time team without a rollback. Most at home with low-latency systems and Elixir. Into vintage synthesizers.

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  • Working sessions on Go
  • Second opinions on low-latency systems decisions
  • Questions about real-time systems
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Skills
low-latency systemsWebSocketsRedisGoErlang/OTPElixir

Experience

  1. Software Engineer
    Oct 2025 - Present
    Nvidia · 1 yr · Contract · Boston, MA
    • Reduced cloud spend on real-time by 23% in two quarters.
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 28 minutes to under 3.

Projects

Open-source Redis toolkit
2026

A small library for real-time systems that 69 developers star on GitHub.

Write-up: real-time systems in practice
2026

A long-form guide to real-time systems for people starting out.

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Education

  1. MIT
    SB, Computer Engineering
    2020 - 2024

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