Sanne Wouda
GPU Driver Engineer at Apple
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSanne Wouda is a GPU driver engineer with 12 years of experience building low-level software for leading technology companies, currently applying deep systems expertise at Apple after a six-year senior engineering tenure at Arm. Trained cum laude in Computer Science (BSc/MSc) from TU Eindhoven and a former PhD candidate, she blends formal systems analysis and algorithmic rigor with practical implementation in compilers, developer tooling, and embedded systems. Her open-source contributions include backend work and parser/tokenizer fixes for the widely used fish shell, demonstrating attention to subtle language semantics and performance. Comfortable moving between research and product teams, she brings an engineer’s precision to complex, safety- and performance-sensitive codebases and enjoys translating academic tooling into industry practice.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, cum laude, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, cum laude at Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
English, Dutch
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Github Skills (20)
tokenizer10
parsing10
rust10
shell10
text-parsing10
bash-completion9
zsh-completion9
command-line9
tab-completion9
completions9
data-structures8
data-structure8
algorithms8
algorithm8
beaver6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
fish-shell/fish-shell
Mar 2015 - Apr 2016
The user-friendly command line shell.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 8 PRs, 45 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Sanne primarily focused on improving the fish-shell's internal functionality and addressing bug fixes. They made changes related to the shell's parser, particularly around handling 'begin' statements and semicolon usage. The user also worked on fixing an issue with backslash newline handling in the tokenizer. In addition to the bug fixes, the user also worked on optimizations within the `fish-shell` codebase and updated git completions.
bashterminalfishcommand-lineshell
snnw/fish-shell
Mar 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 14 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 1 month
bashterminalcommand-lineshelluser-friendly
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