Brandon Jiang is a software engineer with eight years of experience who blends a strong academic background in mathematics and computer science from UIUC with practical systems engineering honed at Google. He has contributed to high-impact open-source tooling—most notably implementing the DynamicBitSlice IR operation and related interpreter, verifier, and Python bindings in Google's XLS project—demonstrating deep backend and compiler-like systems skills. Brandon’s career spans entrepreneurial ventures and sustained production work across Google’s Bay Area and New York teams, showing adaptability across roles and geographies. He brings a pattern-driven approach to problems, marrying formal reasoning from his math training with pragmatic engineering to ship robust, testable features. Colleagues can expect a detail-oriented engineer comfortable working at the intersection of low-level representations and higher-level integrations.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Glenbrook North High School
Bachelor of Science - BS Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Mathematics Computer Science Philosophy, Mathematics Computer Science Philosophy at Brandeis University
Contributions summary:Brandon primarily contributed to the `xls` repository by implementing features related to the `DynamicBitSlice` operation. Their work involved defining the `DynamicBitSlice` operation within the intermediate representation (IR), including its class definition, operand specifications, and integration within the interpreter, verifier, and code generation components. They also implemented and tested matchers for the `DynamicBitSlice` in the IR matcher and function builder, as well as adding the function to the python bindings. The user also integrated a merge from the main branch.
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
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