Ivan Zdane is a Member of Technical Staff and machine learning engineer with 11 years of experience building high-performance ML and systems software, currently focusing on frontier-scale LLM inference acceleration at DensityAI. He spent multiple years at Tesla driving Autopilot perception, Dojo ML performance and offline auto-labeling, progressing from intern to senior engineer and contributing to large-scale training and inference infrastructure. A double major in Computer Science and Mathematical Economics from the University of Waterloo, he blends strong algorithmic foundations with production systems experience across Kubernetes, performance optimization, and ML pipelines. Based in San Francisco and previously identifying as “Autopilot @ Tesla” on GitHub, he brings a pragmatic, performance-first approach to shipping compute-efficient AI systems at scale.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
International Baccalaureate
Bachelor of Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science at University of Waterloo
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