Chris Lishka
Self Employed
Beaverton, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Lishka is a seasoned software and AI engineer with a multi-decade pedigree in systems, compilers, validation, and robotics, now working as an independent contractor from Beaverton, Oregon. He brings deep hands-on experience enabling and optimizing ML frameworks (PyTorch/TensorFlow) for new Intel GPUs, plus a history of shipping packet-capture platforms, CI systems, and robotics-driven test automation. His background spans low-level compiler and binary-translation work through high-level AI performance tuning and science-code acceleration for supercomputing projects. Notably, he designed a low-cost PTP test server on Raspberry Pi 5 and led robotic fixtures and CI that became production test infrastructure, showing a talent for practical, hardware-software co-design. Friendly, detail-oriented and self-taught in areas like 3D design and robot integration, he combines deep debugging skills with a pragmatic focus on deployable solutions.
8 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison
French, German
Github Skills (43)
inference-engine9
cpu9
c-library9
cpp9
deep-learning8
energy8
climate-science8
machine-learning8
datasets8
hardware-acceleration8
tvm8
intel8
climate-change7
fortran7
gpu7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
crlishka/dl-mini-workloads
Nov 2020 - Dec 2020
Mini-workloads for Deep Learning experiments
Contributions:16 commits, 10 PRs, 24 pushes in 26 days
pytorchworkloadsdeep-learningmachine-learning
NervanaSystems/ngraph-tensorflow-bridge
Apr 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:13 PRs, 39 pushes, 13 branches in 2 months
bridgetensorflowngraph
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