Mac Szankin
Senior Staff Software Engineer, AI Platforms & GenAI Innovation
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolMac Szankin is a Senior Staff Software Engineer and AI platforms leader with 11+ years building production-grade, energy-efficient AI systems across edge, cloud, and specialized hardware. He combines deep research—30+ peer-reviewed papers and ongoing PhD work in image processing/real-time face recognition—with hands-on engineering that brought hardware-aware NAS, mixed-precision search, and MLPerf submissions into product lines at Intel. At SiMa.ai and now Qualcomm he has bridged compiler, hardware, and ML teams to deliver GenAI and Physical AI solutions for automotive, robotics, and industrial use cases. An active open-source contributor, he has improved OpenStack Nova’s stability and live-migration reliability, showcasing a practical focus on resilient cloud infrastructure as well as cutting-edge model optimization.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD (Extramural, ongoing), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD (Extramural, ongoing), Computer Science at Gdańsk University of Technology
Polish, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (9)
configuration-management10
openstack10
python10
service-design9
apidoc9
service-provider9
api9
unit-testing8
initialization6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/nova
Feb 2016 - Mar 2017
OpenStack Compute (Nova). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:63 commits in 1 year
Contributions summary:Mac's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the stability and maintainability of the OpenStack Compute (Nova) project. Their work included addressing live migration failure scenarios in the API layer, ensuring proper handling of MessagingTimeout exceptions and writing instance faults to the database. They also centralized configuration options for live migration and made several improvements to documentation and help text for various configuration options. Additionally, the user made changes to configuration files and unit tests.
novaopendevopenstackcompute
macsz/parallel-wiki-classifier
May 2015 - Feb 2020
Contributions:12 PRs, 237 pushes, 9 branches in 4 years 9 months
nlppythonarticles-classificationclassifierparallel
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