Austin Minor
Staff R&D Engineer at Synopsys Inc
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolAustin Minor is a Staff R&D Engineer with nine years of experience building and shipping research-driven software at Synopsys, where he progressed from R&D Engineer to senior and now staff-level roles. He holds a Master’s in Computer Science from Tsinghua and brings a background in HPC tooling, regression test automation, and cross-platform development from internships at ExxonMobil and Faithlife. Comfortable in languages from C++ and Objective-C to Python and C#, he combines low-level performance work with pragmatic engineering for production R&D products. Austin maintains an active code repository on GitLab, signaling a hands-on approach to tooling and prototype development that complements his enterprise R&D responsibilities. Based in Raleigh, he leverages academic training and industry experience to bridge research ideas into scalable engineering solutions.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD (Unfinished), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD (Unfinished), Computer Science at Virginia TechMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Tsinghua UniversityBachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering at Auburn University
Chinese
Github Skills (103)
oculus10
binding10
aframe9
benchmark9
threejs9
ffi9
oculus-quest9
ctypes9
rust8
cli8
protobuf8
pypy8
daydream8
3d8
cffi8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
acm0055/data_gen_rust
Jan 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:8 PRs, 29 pushes, 8 branches in 2 months
acminor/linux
Oct 2021 - Jan 2022
Adding support for the Rust language to the Linux kernel.
Contributions:22 commits, 1 branch in 2 months
kernelrustlinuxlinux-kernelrust-language
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