Jay Rodge
Staff Developer Advocate - LLMs, NVIDIA

Jay Rodge is a developer advocate for large language models (LLMs), where he demonstrates how developers can leverage GPU acceleration in their LLM processes, using tools and frameworks that are widely used by the developer community. Previously, Jay was a product marketing manager for data science and deep learning products at NVIDIA, driving launches and product marketing initiatives. Jay received his master's degree in computer science from Illinois Tech, Chicago. Before joining NVIDIA, Jay was an AI research intern at BMW Group, solving problems using computer vision for BMW's largest manufacturing plant.
Prior to BMW Group, Jay was a Machine Learning Fellow where he spent most of his time building business use case related Deep Learning models for images and enhancing platform.ai. He has also worked on Learning-to-Rank problems (Information Retrieval) at Crysagi Systems using Natural Language Processing techniques.
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Mar 2025 - Present | Promoted to Staff Developer Advocate - Large Language Models at NVIDIA |
Feb 2024 - Feb 2025 | Senior Developer Advocate - Large Language Models at NVIDIA |
May 2022 - Jan 2024 |
Senior Technical Product Marketing Manager, AI/ML at NVIDIA
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Jun 2020 - Apr 2022 | Technical Product Marketing Manager, AI/ML at NVIDIA |
May 2020 | Graduated with Masters Degree in Computer Science from Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago 🎉 |
September 2019 | Joined BMW Group in Innovation and Research Lab as a ML Research Intern |
May 2019 | Started as Machine Learning Fellow at Fellowship.AI 🎉 |
August 2018 | Joined Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago (USA) to pursue Masters in Computer Science |
June 2018 | Completed Under-Grad studies with majors in Computer Engineering 🎉 |
February 2018 | Joined Crysagi Systems as a Data Science Intern |
January 2018 | Started as an ambassador for Nurture.ai's "AI Saturdays" program |