Tessa Power
Senior Software Development Engineer at AMD
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolTessa Power is a Senior Software Development Engineer based in Austin with eight years’ experience building performant systems, now focusing on C++ graphics and real-time rendering at AMD. She pairs deep technical chops in rendering with hands-on product ownership and ISTQB testing discipline, having led automated BDD regression efforts that cut deployment times by over 90%. Her background spans mechatronics, mobile performance monitoring, CI/CD automation, and large-scale e-commerce integrations, giving her a rare cross-domain fluency between hardware-adjacent systems and consumer-facing products. A natural educator, she’s run company-wide workshops and lightning talks on topics from hashing to testing best practices. She enjoys building things from scratch—often as experiments—and brings that curious, DIY approach to production-grade graphics engineering. Expect a pragmatic engineer who blends rigorous testing, product thinking, and a playful affinity for puns.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, Bachelor of Science, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering at Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University (DHBW)BSc, Computer Science, BSc, Computer Science at Massey University - Te Kunenga ki PūrehuroaBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Victoria University of Wellington
English, German
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Github Skills (31)
windows10
desktop10
color-picker9
tac9
powertoys9
javascript7
react7
web-development7
cout6
java5
typescript5
nextjs5
jekyll4
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
tessapower/game-of-life
Feb 2021 - Dec 2022
Conway's Game of Life, developed with Javascript to run in a browser environment.
Contributions:1 review, 10 PRs, 16 pushes in 1 year 10 months
browserjavascriptgame-ofconway-s-game-of-lifelife
tessapower/eloquent-javascript
Jun 2020 - Nov 2022
A collection of exercises from the Eloquent Javascript (3E) book.
Contributions:38 PRs, 78 pushes, 56 branches in 2 years 5 months
exercise-solutionsjavascripteloquent-javascriptlaraveleloquent
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