Tayler Hetherington
Consulting Member Of Technical Staff at Oracle
Greater Vancouver Metropolitan Area Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolTayler Hetherington is a consulting member of technical staff at Oracle with 14 years of experience in computer and software engineering, specializing in computer architecture and GPU simulation. With a strong academic pedigree from UBC (including PhD-level work) and high undergraduate distinction, Tayler has progressed through research and principal engineering roles at Oracle Labs, bridging deep research with production engineering. He contributes to open-source GPU simulation tools like GPGPU-Sim, focusing on runtime compatibility, cache hierarchy improvements, and maintainable back-end code. Based in the Greater Vancouver area, he combines systems-level expertise with practical tooling and documentation habits that make complex hardware-software interaction reproducible and debuggable. An often-overlooked strength is his long-running experience teaching and mentoring, which informs his clear technical communication and design-for-maintainability approach.
14 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science, Computer/Software Engineering, GPA: Year 4 - 94.5% | Year 3 - 93.5% | Year 2 - 93%, Bachelor of Applied Science, Computer/Software Engineering, GPA: Year 4 - 94.5% | Year 3 - 93.5% | Year 2 - 93% at The University of British Columbia
English
Github Skills (9)
opencl10
caching10
cachemanager10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
apidoc9
api9
cuda8
documentation8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
gpgpu-sim/gpgpu-sim_distribution
Aug 2011 - Jun 2015
GPGPU-Sim provides a detailed simulation model of contemporary NVIDIA GPUs running CUDA and/or OpenCL workloads. It includes support for features such as TensorCores and CUDA Dynamic Parallelism as well as a performance visualization tool, AerialVisoin, and an integrated energy model, GPUWattch.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:56 commits, 2 PRs, 1 push in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Tayler primarily focused on modifying the OpenCL runtime API to allow AMD sample applications to run within the GPGPU-Sim environment. They made initial, temporary modifications to the API, indicating a focus on compatibility and integration. The user also added and updated comments in the code, employing Doxygen notation, suggesting a focus on code documentation and maintainability. Furthermore, the user appears to be involved with improving cache hierarchy functionality within the GPU simulator, as demonstrated by the code modification across files such as src/gpgpu-sim/gpu-cache.cc and src/gpgpu-sim/gpu-cache.h.
simsimulationgpgpuopenclnvidia
tayler-hetherington/MemcachedGPU
Jul 2015 - Sep 2017
Contributions:10 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
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