Aidan Ha
Senior System Software Engineer at NVIDIA
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAidan Ha is a Senior System Software Engineer based in California with eight years of experience building high-performance embedded and runtime systems. A Waterloo-trained Computer Engineer, he has progressed through NVIDIA from intern to senior engineer, shipping features for DRIVE OS and embedded platforms. He contributes to prominent open-source JVM projects such as Eclipse OMR and OpenJ9, where he improved core runtime functionality, refactored legacy macros, and implemented architecture-specific optimizations for floating-point and value type handling. Known for pragmatic low-level problem solving, Aidan blends embedded systems expertise with JVM/runtime internals to optimize performance and maintainability. His background includes building containerized testing infrastructure and a history of prototyping production features, highlighting a bias toward shipping robust, testable systems.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bilingual Ontario Secondary School Diploma, Bilingual Ontario Secondary School Diploma at Agincourt Collegiate InstituteBachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (21)
code-optimization10
c-language10
garbage-collector10
runtimes10
jvm10
computer-architecture10
architecture10
compiler-development10
java10
javas10
cprogramming-language10
architectures10
back-end-development9
c119
virtual-machine9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
eclipse-openj9/openj9
Jan 2019 - Oct 2019
Eclipse OpenJ9: A Java Virtual Machine for OpenJDK that's optimized for small footprint, fast start-up, and high throughput. Builds on Eclipse OMR (https://github.com/eclipse/omr) and combines with the Extensions for OpenJDK for OpenJ9 repo.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 18 PRs, 167 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Aidan primarily contributed to the Eclipse OpenJ9 JVM, focusing on improvements to core runtime functionality. Their work included adding features to dump javacore information to STDOUT/STDERR, removing and refactoring macros, and implementing flattened ValueType array functionality. The user also addressed code related to heap allocation and class loading mechanisms.
runtimecompilerextensionseclipseomr
eclipse-omr/omr
Sep 2019 - Dec 2019
Eclipse OMR™ Cross platform components for building reliable, high performance language runtimes
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 16 PRs, 66 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Aidan primarily contributed to the back-end development of the Eclipse OMR project. Their work involved refactoring and optimizing code, including replacing macros and deprecated system calls to improve code maintainability and efficiency. They also implemented new features and performed Tril test for the Z architecture, specifically related to floating-point operations and bit manipulation, and addressed code quality issues.
jitruntimesomrruntimeportability
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