Eric Dong
CPU Design Engineer at Apple
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Dong is a seasoned kernel engineer with 26 years of hands-on experience bridging hardware and low-level software, currently working at Cerebras after roles focused on CPU performance and tuning at Apple. He has deep roots in virtualization and low-level systems dating back to the early Xen/KVM era through work at Intel’s Open Source Technology Center. His background spans SoC design, pre-silicon validation, and custom accelerator research—having architected ML inference accelerators and authored tooling in Python and SystemVerilog to speed complex workflows. Eric has a strong academic foundation from UIUC and Harvard, with cross-registration at MIT and Stanford studies, and a track record mentoring students on RISC-V and OS projects. He combines production tuning experience with research-driven hardware/software co-design, routinely optimizing performance-critical systems. Colleagues describe him as the kind of engineer who turns nuanced microarchitectural insight into practical tools and measurable performance gains.
26 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma General Studies, High School Diploma General Studies at Arcadia High SchoolMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Harvard UniversityBachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, Chinese, Spanish
Github Skills (26)
hypervisor10
moto9
kernel7
esxi6
vms5
linux-kernel5
ipmi5
fat5
hat4
utm4
ovirt3
arm3
virtio3
cloud-platform3
kvm3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
projectacrn/acrn-hypervisor
Mar 2018 - Mar 2018
Project ACRN hypervisor
Contributions:335 reviews, 2 commits, 87 PRs in 1 day
hypervisoracrn
columbia/linux-kvm-arm
Apr 2007 - Nov 2009
Contributions:40 commits in 2 years 7 months
kernelkvmlinuxlinux-kernelpatches
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