Andreas Gal
Home Products at Apple
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndreas Gal is a seasoned technologist and product leader with 17+ years of experience scaling engineering organizations and shipping platform-level products, currently leading Apple's HomeKit efforts from Mountain View. He co-founded Firefox OS—writing its first code and building the team that brought a web-based smartphone OS to market in under two years—and later served as Mozilla’s CTO where he shaped the organization’s technical vision. A PhD-trained compiler researcher, Andreas built the first commercial JIT for JavaScript at Mozilla and has continued hands-on contributions to high-profile open-source projects such as pdf.js and performance-sensitive libraries like gemmlowp. He founded an embedded machine learning startup (Silk Labs), sits on the Connectivity Standards Alliance board, and combines deep systems expertise with product instincts for connected devices. Notably, his career bridges academic research, low-level performance engineering, and large-scale product leadership in consumer and embedded platforms.
18 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Information Systems, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Information Systems at University of Wisconsin-Stevens PointMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at University of MagdeburgDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at University of California, Irvine
English, German, Hungarian
Github Skills (13)
data-structures10
javascript10
c-language10
canvas2d10
canvasjs10
cprogramming-language10
performance-optimization10
multithreading10
pdf-parsing10
data-structure10
canvas10
algorithms8
algorithm8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
mozilla/pdf.js
Apr 2011 - Aug 2012
PDF Reader in JavaScript
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:456 commits in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Andreas's initial commit introduced the foundational structure for a PDF reader in JavaScript, setting up core components like a lexer, parser, and object model. They also implemented the basic rendering logic by designing classes such as CanvasGraphics. The user continued to build upon this foundation, developing classes like FlateStream for decompressing PDF content. Further development involved extending the functionality to interpret and render basic PDF graphics operations such as drawing lines and showing text.
javascriptpdf-reader
google/gemmlowp
Apr 2017 - Oct 2017
Low-precision matrix multiplication
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Performance Engineer
Back-end Developer & Performance EngineerContributions:7 commits, 6 PRs, 25 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Andreas focused on optimizing the performance of the gemmlowp library. They added APIs to configure cache assumptions for L1/L2 caches, and implemented changes to `BlockParams` and `MultiThreadGemm` to improve performance. They also simplified the `WorkersPool` API, and made changes related to multi-threading. Furthermore, they corrected a critical issue related to multi-threaded GEMM with non-default cache size settings.
matrix-multiplication
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