James Edwards
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Edwards is a seasoned engineering leader with 11+ years focused on high-performance computing, multi-core parallel programming, and machine learning, primarily developing and operationalizing ML frameworks on AMD’s ROCm platform. He progressed from hands-on verification and systems work (AIX, Cell SDK, OpenCL) to managing DevOps and ML frameworks, demonstrating deep expertise in heterogeneous compute stacks and developer tooling. Based in Austin, he blends rigorous academic training in physics and computer science from UT Austin with practical experience shipping compute applications and SDKs at scale. Known for translating low-level platform constraints into production-ready frameworks, he excels at bridging hardware-aware optimization with developer experience and deployment reliability.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Physics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Physics at University of OregonMasters of Science, Computer Science, Masters of Science, Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
Github Skills (66)
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amd10
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cuda10
heterogeneous10
documentation10
gpu-programming10
portability10
system-info9
hpc9
amdgpu9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
HSAFoundation/HSA-Runtime-AMD
Aug 2014 - Sep 2015
The HSA-Runtime
Contributions:4 releases, 79 commits, 24 pushes in 1 year 1 month
runtime
HSAFoundation/HSA-Runtime-Reference-Source
Mar 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:7 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
releasedruntimeexperimentation
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