John Wernsing
Cofounder Engineer At Algorithmic Trading Startup at Stealth AI Startup
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Wernsing is a Principal Machine Learning Engineer in Redmond who blends research-level rigor with hands-on systems engineering to ship high-performance ML and backend systems. At Microsoft he led backend work for PICL and built advanced infrastructure including a multi-threaded, auto-optimizing LINQ, the SEAL homomorphic-encryption library, a C++/CLI wrapper for Caffe, and contributions to the Trill streaming engine. More recently he optimized 2D convolutions and implemented custom high-performance PyTorch operators before joining Irreverent Labs, demonstrating a pattern of turning research prototypes into production-grade implementations. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from the University of Florida (3.9) and earlier developed “Elastic Computing” (20,000+ lines of C++ with patent/publications), underscoring deep expertise in parallelism and runtime optimization. Known for bridging native C++ and .NET via C++/CLI and runtime code generation, he thrives at the intersection of low-level systems, ML performance, and applied research.
6 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Engineering at University of Florida
Github Skills (8)
csharp9
visual-studio9
roslyn8
code-analysis8
dotnet8
f-sharp7
c-sharp7
compiler5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (2)
microsoft/sample-app-aoai-chatGPT
Apr 2023 - Jan 2024
Sample code for a simple web chat experience through Azure OpenAI, including Azure OpenAI On Your Data.
Contributions:27 reviews, 1 PR, 1 push in 9 months
dotnet/roslyn
Dec 2019 - Jan 2020
The Roslyn .NET compiler provides C# and Visual Basic languages with rich code analysis APIs.
Contributions:3 comments, 1 issue in 16 days
roslyndotnetf-sharpcompilervisual-basic
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