Edward Brekelbaum
CPU Performance Engineer at Apple
Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEdward Brekelbaum is a CPU performance engineer with 16 years of experience building hardware-software interfaces and performance models for leading semiconductor and systems companies. He has driven microarchitectural research and performance tuning across Intel, Samsung, SiFive, and now Apple, blending C++ and Tcl/Tk tooling to prototype and validate next-generation processor behavior. His background spans both applied research and production-focused architecting—developing simulators, advanced microarchitectural structures, and radar/3D visualization software for government and industry projects. Based in Austin, he leverages deep academic training from Carnegie Mellon in ECE and CS to translate theoretical ideas into measurable CPU performance wins. Not obvious from titles alone, he brings rare cross-domain experience: from naval signal-processing applications to commercial smartphone and RISC-V processor performance.
16 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
MS Electical and Computer Engineering, MS Electical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
English
Github Skills (13)
atlantis9
planet8
cal8
ieee6
hex6
simulator5
simulation5
pdf4
modeling4
extensible3
sourceforge3
tcl1
security1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
nedbrek/hexplanet
Feb 2015 - Jan 2020
Contributions:76 commits, 56 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 11 months
hexplanet
nedbrek/RvFun
Dec 2019 - Sep 2024
Contributions:1 release, 140 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 9 months
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