Aaron Pazdera
Research Engineer at Prime Intellect
Des Plaines, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAaron Pazdera is a research engineer with seven years of experience building high-performance systems at the intersection of compilers, systems programming, and deep learning. He has designed and optimized deep learning compilers and LLM training/inference pipelines (notably the Thunder compiler in collaboration with Nvidia’s nvFuser team) and contributed low-level performance and memory-management improvements to the Julia language runtime. His background spans safety-critical embedded firmware and formal verification to compiler internals and runtime serialization, giving him a rare blend of systems rigor and ML-focused compiler engineering. Based in Des Plaines, IL, he actively publishes projects and technical writing on his site and GitHub, reflecting an obsessive focus on squeezing performance from hardware and runtimes.
7 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computational and Applied Mathematics, Bachelor of Science - BS Computational and Applied Mathematics at University of Wisconsin-Stout
Github Skills (9)
memory-management10
julia10
garbage-collection10
c119
performance-optimization9
c179
hpc8
programming-language8
scientific-computing7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
JuliaLang/julia
Aug 2022 - Dec 2022
The Julia Programming Language
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:28 reviews, 28 commits, 26 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Aaron primarily contributed to the Julia programming language core, focusing on low-level optimizations and improvements to the garbage collector. Their commits involved using memory management functions like `MADV_FREE`, addressing potential warnings from the GCC compiler, and adding tools to generate heap snapshots. The contributions show a deep understanding of memory management and performance optimization within the Julia runtime environment. Furthermore, the user made improvements to the system image serialization process.
sciencejulia-languagemachine-learningjulialangpetsc
apaz-cli/MonikaBot
May 2019 - Jul 2020
A Monika Discord bot which posts quotes and images.
Contributions:54 commits, 4 PRs, 58 pushes in 1 year 2 months
discordbotdiscord-botdiscord-pyquotes
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