Hans Montero
Adjunct Professor at Columbia University
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolHans Montero is an adjunct professor and software engineer with nine years of experience building low-latency systems and teaching advanced systems programming at Columbia University. He currently works at Google on Cloud Techinfra, optimizing SSD read/write latency and improving server efficiency via RDMA, and has contributed to Google's XLS DSL for hardware synthesis and compiler tooling. At Columbia he has redesigned kernel-level course assignments, developed grading infrastructure, and co-designed a new advanced systems course, blending practical operating-systems work with pedagogy. His internships include kernel eBPF performance work and chaos-engineering tooling at Bloomberg, reflecting deep systems and reliability expertise. Based in New York, he pairs academic rigor with production-grade engineering and is an active open-source contributor whose commits touch core DSL interpreter and IR components.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Advanced Regents Diploma Software Engineering, Advanced Regents Diploma Software Engineering at Brooklyn Technical High SchoolMaster of Science - MS Computer Science (Software Systems), Master of Science - MS Computer Science (Software Systems) at Columbia Engineering
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (6)
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compiler10
compiler-compiler10
interpreter10
dsl10
verilog8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
google/xls
Jun 2020 - Aug 2020
XLS: Accelerated HW Synthesis
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:114 commits, 1 push, 1 comment in 2 months
Contributions summary:Hans made several commits that modified the interpreter and related helper utilities within the XLS repository. Their contributions included wrapping the interpreter in a simple class and later replacing it with a callback function, adjusting type hinting, and updating bindings. The user also modified the IR converter and added derived parametric constraint tests. These changes suggest involvement in core DSLX language features and internal components.
high-level-synthesisxlsacceleratedsynthesiscompiler
hmontero1205/pygrader
Jul 2020 - Sep 2021
Generic grading framework for coding assignments
Contributions:6 reviews, 100 commits, 6 PRs in 1 year 1 month
genericgrading
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