Raun Krisch
Director Of Software Engineering at AMD
Dripping Springs, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRaun Krisch is a production-focused software engineering leader with a deep specialty in GPU-based compilers and hardware–software interfaces, currently directing software engineering at AMD. He brings over a decade of hands-on experience building custom compiler technologies and leveraging LLVM across roles at Intel, Samsung SARC, Microsoft, and others. Raun manages cross-functional teams that perform workload analysis, optimization, and internal infrastructure support, and he currently chairs the Khronos SPIR-V working group. Known for shipping performant GPU toolchains for OpenCL, Vulkan, and related APIs, he blends low-level systems expertise with practical production delivery. Based in Dripping Springs, Texas, he holds an MS in Computer Science from RIT and is particularly skilled at translating hardware characteristics into compiler optimizations that yield measurable runtime gains. An understated strength is his ability to balance standards leadership with day-to-day engineering execution, ensuring both ecosystem compatibility and shipping products.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Computer Science, Master of Science (MS), Computer Science at Rochester Institute of Technology
Github Skills (23)
python8
driver8
spirv8
intel8
graphic7
raspberry-pi7
opencl7
iot6
gpu6
mqtt6
gpgpu6
home-automation5
cpp5
oneapi5
asyncio4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
raunraun/raunnes
May 2017 - Sep 2023
Contributions:28 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 4 months
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