Marc Koester
Staff at DuPont(TM)
Buffalo, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMarc Koester is a Staff software engineer based in Buffalo, New York with 12 years of experience building high-performance systems. At DuPont he combines practical engineering with technical leadership, applying deep backend expertise to real-world industrial problems. He contributes to open-source compiler work, notably optimizing the ILGPU JIT for .NET to improve kernel generation, loop unrolling, and memory handling for NVIDIA GPUs. That low-level performance focus suggests a strong grounding in compilers, numerical code generation, and systems optimization beyond typical application development. Marc studied at Technische Universität Darmstadt and brings a pragmatic, performance-first mindset to cross-disciplinary engineering teams. He is the kind of engineer who bridges research-level optimization techniques and production-grade reliability.
12 years of coding experience
Technischen Universität Darmstadt
Github Skills (10)
compiler-optimization10
cuda10
loop-unrolling10
irr10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
gpu10
optimisation10
intermediate-code10
optimization10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
m4rs-mt/ILGPU
Jun 2017 - Dec 2022
ILGPU JIT Compiler for high-performance .Net GPU programs
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:29 releases, 558 reviews, 1352 commits in 5 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Marc appears to be involved in optimizing the ILGPU JIT Compiler. Their contributions include implementing and refining arithmetic simplification strategies, improving loop analysis and unrolling, and extending the IR to support new types of operations. They worked on enhancing the efficiency and performance of kernel code generation, particularly for NVIDIA GPUs, by optimizing branches and memory handling.
amdcompilerkernelsgpgpu-computinggpgpu
m4rs-mt/ILGPU.SharpDX
May 2017 - Feb 2019
Contributions:5 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
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