Peter Buckingham

VP, Software Engineering at SambaNova

Peter has more than 20 years of experience building new technology and taking it to market. At VMware, he was responsible for AI/ML Engineering on VMware's core virtualization product. Prior to Bitfusion's acquisition by VMware, Peter was its VP of Engineering, owning the Flexdirect Platform and leading Solution Architects, QA, and DevOps. Peter has contributed to groundbreaking technology that helped change the industry, driving the GPU Computing revolution through work on CUDA and supporting the Tesla Business Unit at NVIDIA. He has also held senior technical leadership positions at Sun Microsystems and Dell. Before Bitfusion, Peter was the CTO and VP of Engineering at Waypoint, building a SaaS solution for analytics and workflow targeted at the Commercial Real Estate market. Peter graduated from the Australian National University with a BSC (Hons), where he majored in Mathematics and Computer Science with a minor in Physics.

Timeline

  • VP, Software Engineering

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