Senior Systems & Graphics Performance Engineer

Jesse is a competent generalist and lifelong learner with extensive experience across the entire stack, from low-level performance optimization (cycle-shaving hot loops, SIMD) to web frontends. Their most recent professional experience includes about a year at a semiconductor startup, where they prototyped an ISA, compiler, cycle simulator, and visual debugger. Jesse is highly adaptable, quickly becoming productive in new languages and environments, and is comfortable with heavily multithreaded/async soft-realtime systems where performance is critical. They possess a strong understanding of modern hardware architectures, including GPUs, memory, registers, and instruction pipelines, and have working knowledge of interpreters, dynamic language runtimes, and garbage collectors. Jesse excels at transforming abstract product visions into working prototypes and delivering tangible value, with a track record of identifying 80/20 solutions. Their interests include systems programming, compilers, 2D & 3D graphics, and performance. Jesse believes their calling is to program computers.