Zi Yan
Software Engineer at NVIDIA
Greater Boston United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZi Yan is a software engineer with a decade of deep systems and research experience specializing in memory management, compilers, and computer architecture. Based in Greater Boston, he has driven production and upstream Linux kernel work at NVIDIA—shipping transparent huge page migration and memory defragmentation enhancements that measurably improved translation coverage. His background combines a PhD-level research foundation from Rutgers and hands-on GPU/LLM systems work (Megatron Core MoE, NVIDIA LLM training stacks), bridging low-level OS internals with large-scale ML infrastructure. Known for shipping kernel patches and performance-focused runtime features, he brings a rare blend of academic rigor and production-grade system engineering.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science at Rutgers UniversityUniversity of Texas at San AntonioBachelor of Engineering, Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science at Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsMaster, Computer & Information Sciences, 3.88, Master, Computer & Information Sciences, 3.88 at University of Pennsylvania
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (57)
transformers10
python10
machine-learning10
large-language-models10
numpy10
transformer-models10
deep-learning10
gpu10
neural-network10
compression10
pytorch9
mixture-of-experts9
autograd9
tensor9
gpu-acceleration9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
yanring/XiaoXingProject
Apr 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:45 commits, 29 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
yanring/devices_management
Dec 2016 - Jun 2017
Contributions:22 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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