Stephen Youn
Software Engineer at Google DeepMind
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolStephen Youn is a software engineer with three years of focused experience accelerating deep learning training and inference across industry leaders including Google DeepMind, Google, AMD, and Microsoft. Leveraging a PhD-level electrical and computer engineering background from Seoul National University, he has moved from mixed-signal IC simulation and applied ML research at Intel to building production LLM acceleration stacks like Brainwave and TPU performance optimization. He combines hardware-aware systems design with software engineering to squeeze performance from accelerators and toolchains, often bridging research prototypes to deployable platforms. Now at DeepMind, he continues to specialize in performance-critical ML infrastructure—an uncommon blend of semiconductor CAD, FPGA/ASIC-aware systems, and large-scale ML deployment experience.
3 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Electrical and Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Electrical and Computer Engineering at Seoul National University
Github Skills (35)
pytorch10
distributed-training10
mixture-of-experts10
machine-learning10
inference10
triton10
code-generation10
data-parallelism10
deepspeed10
deep-learning10
gpu10
compression10
optimization10
programming-language8
assembly8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
sanghonline/triton-eval
Sep 2022 - Oct 2022
Contributions:9 pushes, 15 branches, 1 issue in 21 days
rocm-port/mamba-rocm
Apr 2024 - Sep 2024
Contributions:1 PR, 9 pushes, 4 branches in 5 months
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