Julian Samaroo
Research Software Engineer at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Tempe, Arizona, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJulian Samaroo is a Research Software Engineer with a decade of experience building high-performance, portable computing tools that scale from laptops to the world's fastest supercomputers. Based at MIT's JuliaLab, he is the lead maintainer of Dagger.jl and AMDGPU.jl, enabling heterogeneous and GPU-accelerated Julia workflows used on systems like LUMI and Oak Ridge’s Frontier. He contributes to Julia core and critical packaging/build infrastructure (JuliaLang/julia, Yggdrasil), adding features like WebAssembly, BPF, and platform-specific targets for broad portability. Julian’s work bridges research and production: he accelerates ML and scientific codes (including collaborations implementing StableDiffusion in pure Julia) and helps collaborators deploy them at exascale. Trained in neuroscience, he brings a systems-thinking perspective to performance engineering, turning serial prototypes into maintainable, parallelized solutions.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Neuroscience, Bachelor of Science (BS), Neuroscience at The College of William and MaryHigh School Diploma, Science, High School Diploma, Science at Syosset High School
Russian, Italian, German
Github Skills (31)
freebuilder10
programming-language10
pybuilder10
machine-learning10
finalbuilder10
app-builder10
ensemble-learning10
musl10
pbuilder10
language-design10
parallel-computing10
jbuilder10
build-automation10
gui-builder10
ui-builder10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
JuliaPackaging/Yggdrasil
Sep 2020 - Sep 2022
Collection of builder repositories for BinaryBuilder.jl
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:44 reviews, 46 commits, 63 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Julian primarily contributed to the build system and supporting infrastructure for the `yggdrasil` repository, a collection of builder repositories for BinaryBuilder.jl. They added support for new targets and features, specifically for musl and BPF. Their work included modifying build scripts, patching configuration files, and integrating new libraries like ubpf and fts. Further contributions involved adapting the build processes and addressing platform-specific dependencies to ensure correct builds across different environments.
repositoriesbinarybuildermonorepobuilderjulia
JuliaLang/julia
Nov 2018 - Oct 2022
The Julia Programming Language
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:67 reviews, 21 commits, 43 PRs in 4 years
Contributions summary:Julian contributed significantly to the core functionality of the Julia programming language. Their work includes implementing a recursive merge function for NamedTuple, adding IPv6 functionality to network addressing, and improving the thread safety of timers and sleep functions. Furthermore, the user was involved in enhancing the build process by adding WebAssembly support and BPF target enabling.
juliaprogramming-languagejulia-languagescientifichpc
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