Kevin Pick
Software Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Pick is a low-level systems engineer with nine years of experience specializing in CPU and GPU performance optimization, currently contributing to AWS Firewall at Amazon Web Services. He brings deep graphics and architecture expertise from roles at Apple and multi-year research at UT Austin, where his honors thesis advanced Morton code generation and proposed hardware tweaks for arbitrary-precision batch operations on GPUs. His internship work at Microsoft’s Xbox Advanced Technology Group delivered real-world wins—halving Unreal Engine light-baking times via a hybrid CPU/GPU raytracer that shipped in Gears 5—and he has practical experience porting heavy server workloads to host hardware using DXR. Kevin pairs academic rigor (BS/MS, UT Austin, ~3.9 GPA) with production-focused engineering, routinely bridging compiler/algorithm-level ideas to shipping system optimizations. Based in Redmond, he combines low-level performance tuning with a knack for rethinking hardware-software tradeoffs that unlock measurable runtime and power improvements.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, GPA: 3.8, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, GPA: 3.8 at The University of Texas at Austin
Github Skills (45)
lxd9
lxc9
cpp8
docker8
xbox-one8
api8
virtual-machine8
linux8
criu8
opengl7
plugin7
xbox7
go7
vulkan7
unreal6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Fierykev/RayTraceVoxel
Sep 2016 - Sep 2019
Contributions:2 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 3 years
Fierykev/FileX
Dec 2016 - Feb 2022
Contributions:22 pushes in 5 years 2 months
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