Abel Briggs
Software Performance Engineer at AMD
Wisconsin, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAbel Briggs is a Software Performance Engineer with nine years of experience building high-performance systems in C++, C, and Python, currently at AMD. His background spans embedded firmware (UEFI/coreboot) and automated hardware test infrastructure, having shipped Ice Lake‑D platform work and improved CI/CD tooling with Jenkins, GitLab CI, and Docker. An active open-source contributor, he’s added user-facing features and API integrations to the popular RuneLite Old School RuneScape client and enhanced graphics-driver fuzz testing during a Google Summer of Code placement. Based in Wisconsin, he blends low-level debugging chops with full‑stack development sensibilities and a tinkerer’s attention to craftsmanship. Peers describe him as pragmatic and thorough, focused on keeping projects on schedule while improving testability and user experience.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Software Engineering, Mathematics Minor, Bachelor of Science - BS, Software Engineering, Mathematics Minor at University of Wisconsin-Platteville
Github Skills (9)
plugin-development10
javas10
uid10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
rune10
java10
api9
apim9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
runelite/runelite
Apr 2017 - Apr 2019
Open source Old School RuneScape client
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 11 PRs, 4 comments in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Abel implemented several features related to the RuneLite client, focusing on enhancing the user experience. They added an idle notifier plugin, expanded the animation ID class, integrated item highlighting/hiding functionality for ground items, and reformatted the display of ground item information. These contributions span both the client-side interface and API integrations, indicating a full-stack development focus within the context of this OSRS client.
old-schooldotnetrunescapeosrsold-school-runescape
abelbriggs1/graphicsfuzz
Mar 2019 - Oct 2019
A testing framework for automatically finding and simplifying bugs in graphics shader compilers.
Contributions:108 pushes, 62 branches in 7 months
compilerstesting-frameworkfindingtestingsimplifying
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