George Kuan
Adjunct Instructor at DePaul University
Greater Chicago Area United States
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Top SchoolGeorge Kuan is a systems software engineer and adjunct instructor with 19 years of experience building compilers, JIT runtimes, low-latency trading systems, FPGA interfaces, and high-throughput distributed event processors. He has been an early employee at startups (employee #16 at a last-mile wireless company acquired by Nokia) and has held senior engineering roles in larger organizations, blending hands-on implementation with team leadership. A committer to ChakraCore, he played a key role adding WebAssembly opcode support and modular Wasm handling to Microsoft's JavaScript engine, and he is also a contributor to the widely used Standard ML of New Jersey compiler. His background includes rigorous academic training (PhD-level work at University of Chicago) and rare formal contributions—a mathematical proof of correctness for an optimization used in OCaml and GHC type inference. Based in the Chicago area, he combines deep language/runtime expertise across C++, OCaml, and Python with practical experience shipping systems that process billions of events daily.
18 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Gunn High SchoolBS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Harvey Mudd CollegePhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at University of Chicago
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Github Skills (6)
javascript10
c-language10
webassembly10
cpp10
cprogramming-language10
rust-wasm10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
chakra-core/ChakraCore
Jan 2016 - Sep 2016
ChakraCore is an open source Javascript engine with a C API.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:62 commits, 73 PRs, 150 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:George primarily focused on enhancing the ChakraCore JavaScript engine's WebAssembly (Wasm) support. Their contributions involved implementing the decoding and compilation of new opcodes like `tableswitch`, `sqrt_flt`, and `rotate` along with enabling the processing of various sections within the Wasm module, including data segments, names, and function bodies. Furthermore, the user implemented support for drop and tee_local opcodes, and refactored the code to improve modularity and to load functions and exports, improving the overall Wasm support.
javascript-enginechakracoreruntimemicrosoftc-api
commonlisp/kubernetes
Jan 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:41 pushes in 1 year 1 month
containerscontainer-clusterdockerkubernetescluster-manager
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