Maia Blanco
CPU Performance Engineer at Apple
California, United States
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Top SchoolMaia Blanco is a CPU Performance Engineer at Apple with a PhD in Computer Architecture from Carnegie Mellon University and 11 years of hands-on experience optimizing high-performance and graph-processing workloads. Her research and industry work bridge analytical performance modeling, SIMD/vectorization, and workload-driven CPU design guidance, including measurable end-to-end speedups on diverse architectures. She has applied these skills across national labs and industry internships—rewriting core kernels, developing performance models, and contributing to GraphBLAS efforts—bringing both theory and production-minded engineering to hardware-software co-design. Based in California, Maia is passionate about making high-performance computing more power-efficient and accessible, and she has a track record of translating academic innovations into real-world performance gains.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Computer Systems Engineering & Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Final GPA: 3.93, Computer Systems Engineering & Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Final GPA: 3.93 at Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Architecture, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Architecture at Carnegie Mellon University
French, Spanish, Chinese
Github Skills (57)
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
MarkBlanco/FPGA_Sandbox
Jun 2017 - Jun 2018
Contributions:45 commits, 47 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
MaiaBlanco/RL-DVFS
May 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:201 commits, 96 pushes, 17 branches in 25 days
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