Summary
John Sheu is a senior software engineer with 14 years of experience building high-performance systems and graphics software across NVIDIA, Google, and Meta. Trained in both computer science and biochemistry at UT Austin, he began in computational quantum chemistry and cluster administration before moving into driver and systems work, giving him a rare blend of scientific rigor and low-level engineering. He has shipped DirectX drivers, ChromeOS graphics, VR and Fuchsia OS components, and now contributes to Reality Labs, specializing in distributed computing, massive parallelism, and performance optimization. Known for making software run fast, he pairs deep C/C++ systems expertise with hands-on Linux administration and Windows driver debugging. Comfortable across research and product cycles, he brings a pragmatic curiosity—equally at home profiling a GPU pipeline as tuning cluster deployments. Based in California, he thrives on the intersection of graphics, systems, and scalable performance engineering.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science Biochemistry, BS Computer Science Biochemistry at The University of Texas at Austin
English, Chinese, German