Alexander Zhang

Work Experience

• Released Gigapixel v5.7-6.3 as solo dev, adding face recovery, ARM support, etc.
• Designed and maintained image processing pipeline for all image processing apps
• Wrote cross-platform inference code for Nvidia/AMD/Apple/Intel GPUs & NPUs
• Worked with vendors to optimize GAN & diffusion models for edge deployment

• Designed and wrote cooperative multitasking OS for Cortex-M3 based systems
• Developed LTE modem driver, OTA update decompressor, and HTTP request parser

• Processed and analyzed regional climate model data from NCAR supercomputers

Education

• B.S.E. in Computer Science from College of Engineering

Selected Projects

• Wrote LLVM backend and toolchain ports for RISC instruction set
• Implemented multicycle CPU, DDR3 controller, display, etc. on FPGA
• Ported Doom, Coremark, and other software to custom SoC design

• Search engine for over 400 million pages written from scratch in C++
• Worked with team of 6 over 4 months to develop crawler, index, etc.

• Experimental Nintendo 64 emulator that boots many commercial games
• Wrote MIPS to x64 JIT compiler, including SIMD instruction handling
• Emulated RDP using software rasterization in a Vulkan compute shader

• Webapp for making mockups of custom keyboard layouts and keycap set designs
• Widely used by keycap set designers, >200 mockups generated daily in 2019

Technical Skills

• C, C++, Python, Javascript, Java, Swift, OCaml, SQL, HTML/CSS, x86/ARM/MIPS, HLSL
• CUDA, ONNX, Pytorch, TensorRT, CoreML, OpenVINO, Vulkan, Qt, Ghidra, Git