Alex Shows
Principal Member Of Technical Staff at AMD
Leander, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Shows is a veteran principal-level engineer with 28 years in the PC industry and 13 years focused on system architecture, currently shaping hardware–software integration at AMD. He combines deep expertise in performance engineering, driver and kernel debugging, and realtime graphics with a rare track record of 24 issued patents and four pending. At Dell he optimized CPU/GPU/memory/storage tradeoffs across workstations and led investigations from prototype to end-of-life, and earlier roles include founding Razer’s Austin Research Center and defining cross-team product development processes. He pairs hands-on C/C++ and multithreaded development with statistical analysis and data visualization (R, Power BI, ggplot2) to quantify thermal, power, and acoustics tradeoffs. Known for creating SDKs, profiling tools, and reproducible validation workflows, he excels at turning complex hardware constraints into practical system recipes. Based in Leander, Texas, he brings a pragmatic blend of research, engineering leadership, and measurable impact on consumer and professional PC platforms.
13 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Applied Science in Computer Science, Computer Science, Associate of Applied Science in Computer Science, Computer Science at Austin Community College
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Github contributions (5)
AlexShows/tsClusters
Dec 2013 - Sep 2014
Contributions:28 commits in 9 months
AlexShows/tsStego
Aug 2014 - Sep 2014
Contributions:44 commits in 1 month
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