Mei Ye is a founder and engineer based in San Jose with eight years focused on bridging compiler technology and machine learning frameworks. She spent a long career building and optimizing compilers—at AMD, Samsung Research America, and Intel—delivering graph and tensor optimizations, automatic kernel generation, and heterogeneous-hardware acceleration. More recently she pivoted from deep compiler engineering into product-driven work, founding a stealth startup that applies VisionLLM to place-based education and artistic, real-world exploration. Her background uniquely blends low-level performance tuning (LLVM, OpenCL, OpenGL, Open64) with higher-level ML framework support, enabling end-to-end optimization of model workloads. Mei holds dual MS degrees and a mechanical engineering BS, reflecting a pattern of cross-disciplinary problem solving. Colleagues describe her as a pragmatic optimizer who turns complex compiler research into usable, performance-first software.
8 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
MS computer science, MS computer science at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
BS Mechanical Engin, BS Mechanical Engin at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
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