Zhikun Cai
Lead Software Engineer at Cadence Design Systems
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZhikun Cai is a Lead Software Engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area with a PhD and a decade of experience building high-performance computational systems. At Cadence he architects and optimizes C++ routing engines for EDA, specializing in cost-driven pathfinding and post-route topology repair to reduce congestion and design-rule violations. His background in computational research—studying protein dynamics with HPC during a Beckman Fellowship—gives him strong foundations in numerical methods and performance engineering. Comfortable bridging research and production, he combines rigorous algorithmic thinking with pragmatic software delivery to tackle complex, real-world engineering problems. An understated globe-trotter by GitHub bio, he brings a quietly persistent curiosity to long-running technical challenges.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at University of Science and Technology of ChinaUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, Chinese
Github Skills (4)
sampling3
sequential3
resampling3
machine-learning2
Github contributions (5)
caizkun/think-cpp
May 2017 - May 2020
Contributions:43 commits, 41 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
caizkun/mapreduce-examples
Aug 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:31 commits, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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