Reid Kawaja
Senior Software Engineer - Machine Learning Frameworks at AMD
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolReid Kawaja is a Senior Software Engineer specializing in machine learning frameworks, with five years of industry experience building and optimizing deep learning systems for vision and audio/speech at AMD. He combines strong software engineering in Python, C++, and Java with hands-on expertise in PyTorch, TensorFlow, CUDA, and OpenCV to deliver performant ML libraries and production-ready pipelines. His background spans financial analytics and risk modeling to data science, giving him a pragmatic, metrics-driven approach to model development and deployment using Docker, Kubernetes, and Hadoop ecosystems. Reid holds an MS in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins and a BS in Biomedical Sciences, a blend that informs his interdisciplinary problem solving across applied ML and systems-level engineering. He’s comfortable moving models from research to production and frequently bridges low-level performance work with higher-level ML workflows.
5 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, (BS) Biomedical Sciences (BA) Integrative Studies-Health Policy, Bachelor's degree, (BS) Biomedical Sciences (BA) Integrative Studies-Health Policy at Grand Valley State UniversityMaster's degree, (MS) Computer Science, Master's degree, (MS) Computer Science at Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering
Arabic, English, German
Github Skills (14)
opencl10
cluster-computing10
blas10
amd10
machine-learning9
kernel9
portable9
tensorflow7
composable7
deep-learning7
tensor3
cnn-keras1
deep-neural-networks1
neural-network1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
reidkwja/reidkwja.github.io
Feb 2021 - Nov 2021
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
reidkwja/COVID-19-US-Counties
Jan 2021 - Sep 2021
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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