Senior Systems & Graphics Performance Engineer

Jesse is a competent generalist and lifelong learner with experience across the entire stack, from low-level performance optimization (cycle-shaving hot loops, saturating instruction pipelines) to frontend web development. Their recent professional experience includes approximately one year at a semiconductor startup, where they prototyped an ISA, compiler, cycle simulator, and visual debugger. Jesse is highly adaptable, quickly becoming productive in various languages and technical environments, including 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, along with working knowledge of interpreters, dynamic language runtimes, and garbage collectors. Jesse excels at transforming abstract product visions into working prototypes and refining them to deliver customer value, consistently identifying 80/20 solutions. Their interests include systems programming, 2D & 3D graphics, and performance. Jesse is passionate about programming computers. Jesse's GitHub profile is available at https://github.com/scallyw4g.