Alexander Vance

Systems Programmer & ML Engineer.
Building the bridge between low-level efficiency and high-level intelligence.

Core Competencies

C++ / Rust Systems programming, memory safety, high-performance computing.
Machine Learning PyTorch, TensorFlow, custom CUDA kernels, LLM fine-tuning.
Linux Kernel Driver development, kernel debugging, embedded systems.
Distributed Systems gRPC, Kafka, consensus algorithms, microservices architecture.

Selected Works

Vortex Engine

A custom, lock-free game engine written in Rust. Features a proprietary ECS architecture and real-time ray tracing via Vulkan.

Rust Vulkan WASM

Sentinel AI

Anomaly detection system for server infrastructure using unsupervised learning on time-series data.

Python PyTorch Docker

OpenSource Kernel

Maintainer of a lightweight POSIX-compliant kernel module for educational purposes. 5k+ stars on GitHub.

C Assembly Linux

Experience

NVIDIA Research Systems Engineer Intern

Optimized CUDA memory allocation patterns, resulting in a 12% throughput increase for training pipelines.

Summer 2023
Red Hat Open Source Contributor

Contributed to the RHEL kernel security patches and maintained a Rust-based CLI tool for system monitoring.

2021 - Present

Let's build the future.

Currently open for full-time opportunities in Systems Engineering or ML Infrastructure.

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