John Judnich
Member Of Technical Staff at (Stealth AI Startup)
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Judnich is a software engineer with 13 years of experience specializing in high-performance systems programming and massively parallel deep learning, currently building at a stealth AI startup in Palo Alto. His career spans research-grade 3D graphics and computational photography to production roles at Meta, Jump Trading, and multiple positions at Microsoft, where he advanced GPU algorithms, real-time rendering, and scalable systems. He has published graphics research (including novel per-pixel displacement and terrain rendering algorithms) and repeatedly delivered practical performance wins—often doubling or more the speed or perceived quality of prior approaches. John combines low-level optimization expertise with interests in computer language design, maintainable component-oriented software, and scalable UI frameworks, making him comfortable across GPU kernels, distributed systems, and ML infrastructure. An entrepreneurial streak shows in early independent iOS success and applied visualization work for commercial and military clients, signaling an aptitude for shipping polished products from prototype to production.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science and Engineering, BS Computer Science and Engineering at Santa Clara University
Github Skills (36)
3d9
electron7
java7
databases7
typescript7
database6
macos5
sql5
hive5
hadoop5
editor5
linux5
big-data5
windows5
microsoft5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
judnich/IronWarfare
Jul 2012 - Mar 2013
Contributions:8 commits in 7 months
judnich/TupleMarkup
Nov 2012 - Mar 2013
Contributions:121 commits in 3 months
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