Sidong Wei
Senior Software Engineer at Uber
Markham, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolSidong Wei is a Senior Software Engineer with six years of experience building high-performance back-end systems and enabling platform portability for Linux on IBM Z. Currently at Uber, he brings a strong math and computer science foundation to performance engineering, having contributed to the XLA machine-learning compiler with memory-space and prefetch optimizations and platform fixes for s390x/Big-Endian systems. His prior work at IBM focused on porting open-source projects and creating emulated CI/CD pipelines using docker buildx, qemu, and binfmt to broaden IBM Z support. A fast learner who thrives in unfamiliar domains, Sidong combines rigorous problem-solving with clear communication and collaborative execution. He holds a Master of Mathematics in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo and a BS in Mathematics from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic code fixes that bridge low-level architecture nuances and production-grade tooling.
5 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, Bachelor of Science - BS Mathematics and Applied Mathematics at Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityMaster of Mathematics Computer Science, Master of Mathematics Computer Science at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (7)
compiler-optimization10
xla10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
linear-algebra10
performance-tuning9
s390x8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
openxla/xla
Jun 2020 - Oct 2020
A machine learning compiler for GPUs, CPUs, and ML accelerators
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Performance Engineer
Back-end Developer & Performance EngineerContributions:10 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Sidong's commits primarily involve resolving merge conflicts and updating code across multiple files within the XLA (Accelerated Linear Algebra) project. The changes indicate a focus on the memory space assignment optimization, and improving the prefetch interval picker logic to enhance the performance of the compiler. This user also worked on adding aliases and updating targets, specifically in the `xla/python/outfeed_receiver.cc` and test files, including several fixes for the s390x architecture and other Big-Endian systems.
compilercommunity-drivenmachine-learningmodular
Sidong-Wei/doxygen
Jan 2021 - Jun 2021
Official doxygen git repository
Contributions:23 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
git-repositorydoxygen
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