Oscar Smith-sieger
Software Development Engineer 1 at SFU Game Developers Club
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolOscar Smith-sieger is a software engineer with 11 years of experience, currently building managed messaging services on the AmazonMQ team at AWS. He combines production cloud engineering with deep numerical and performance expertise, evidenced by significant backend contributions to the Julia language and SciML's high-performance ODE solvers where he optimized core math functions and solver performance. A proven backend developer, he has also improved research data tooling in the Dataverse project by enhancing metadata presentation and code structure. Co-founder and director of a student-focused game development non-profit and long-time student leader, he brings strong community-building and mentorship experience alongside his engineering work. Based in Vancouver, he iterates between hands-on optimization and product-minded system design, comfortable navigating both low-level numerical correctness and large-scale managed services. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic performance fixes that preserve accuracy in critical numerical code while shipping reliable software at scale.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Faculty of Applied Sciences at Simon Fraser University
English
Stackoverflow
6,043reputation
104kreached
158answers
10questions
julia
top-5%
Github Skills (39)
performance-analytics10
performance-monitor10
float3210
ode10
data-set10
dao10
math10
data-management10
java10
performance-measurement10
datasets10
maths10
math-functions10
javas10
differential-equations10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
IQSS/dataverse
Jun 2017 - Aug 2018
Open source research data repository software
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:200 commits, 20 PRs, 177 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Oscar primarily contributed to the Dataverse project by implementing meta tags within the dataset page, which involved modifying Java files related to dataset and dataset version pages. Additionally, they refactored code, improving the organization and structure of the code, specifically relating to dataset version management. These changes suggest a focus on enhancing the presentation and organization of dataset information within the Dataverse platform.
research-datadata-repositoryopendataresearch-data-repositorycreative-commons
JuliaLang/julia
Feb 2020 - Jan 2023
The Julia Programming Language
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:797 reviews, 113 commits, 597 PRs in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Oscar primarily contributed to the optimization and enhancement of core mathematical functions within the Julia programming language. Their work focused on improving the speed and accuracy of key functions like `exp`, `tanh`, `atanh`, `sinh`, `cos`, and `cbrt` for various floating-point types. They introduced and refined implementations, often leveraging techniques like minimax polynomials and compensated summation. In addition, the user added tests and fixed existing issues related to numerical computation and edge cases.
sciencejulia-languagemachine-learningjulialangpetsc
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