Dirk Hornung
Ingeniero De Software at Metascan
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolDirk Hornung is a GPU compiler engineer at Google with a decade of experience building and optimizing compiler stacks and deep learning runtimes for CUDA/NVIDIA GPUs, maintaining OpenXLA:GPU that powers Alphabet’s GPU workloads. He combines expertise across LLVM/MLIR/XLA, Triton and TVM with practical frameworks experience (JAX, TensorFlow, PyTorch) to deliver production-grade performance for large-scale ML. Dirk also co-founded MetaScan, applying his computer-vision and systems knowledge to room-scale 3D human scanning and synthetic human identity generation for AI. His background spans applied deep ML, data lake architecture, and multiple startups where he led engineering and product efforts, reflecting both research rigor (PhD-level physics) and hands-on systems craftsmanship. In his personal lab he prototypes with 3D printers, CNC machines and vision systems—a hobby that directly informs his work on real-world ML and scanning pipelines.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), High Energy Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), High Energy Physics at Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Physics, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Physics at Goethe University FrankfurtWinfriedschule
German, English, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Portuguese
Github Skills (200)
ui-components10
freedesktop10
closed10
vms10
aws-s310
extensible10
javascript-api10
react-components10
mod-manager10
api10
scalable10
h26510
typescript10
mocking10
television10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
derdrdirk/cv
Jul 2019 - Apr 2023
Contributions:44 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 9 months
Aldabot/aldabot
Dec 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:81 commits, 12 PRs, 69 pushes in 2 months
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