Craig Hansen-Sturm Email & Phone Number

California, United States

Palo Alto, CA, US

- Kernel compiler developer currently working on SambaNova's assembler. LLVM, MLIR, and general systems development for SambaNova Systems novel data-flow hardware accelerator. Graph compiler code generation, optimization, and performance.

- Personal Development Projects & Consulting. Developed my 3rd audio engine.

Cupertino, California, US

- Member of TDG's OS team developing the display driver for Apple Vision Pro. This work included implementing frame and timing stats, color management support, initializing the display backend (fixed-function pipeline), as well as general optimizations for power and frame-rates.Previously:- Member of RealityKit's foundation team. Designed and implemented.

San Jose, CA, US

- A founding member of the Aero AR rendering engine team. Implemented core/system level 3d engine components including entity and gfx resource serialization and memory management.- Worked with product design and Adobe research on early/speculative prototypes of Aero's behavior system. This included proposing a custom language design as well as a UI-only.

- Design and implementation of a high performance, distributed memory allocator for Fungible's revolutionary new DPU SoC.

Kings Langley, Hertfordshire, GB

- Technical management of a Linux systems driver team responsible for GLES, Display, HDMI, as well as additional software components which ship with the SDK/DDK for Imagination Technologies new ray-tracing GPU. Day to day technical planning and management. Hands on design and implementation of system drivers, apis, and 3D applications, in particular: o.

Santa Clara, California, US

- Designed a QoS framework which spans the GPU, Camera/ISP, IA Core, and other SOC accelerator blocks. This work involved building a workload/shader interception/monitoring framework (a user-mode filter driver), a kernel mode QoS driver, and a user-mode service which serves as a statistics gathering and control hub for the QoS feedback/control system. The.

Singapore, SG

- Managed a small team of developers who developed the core technology for Cakewalk ScratchPad: a tablet application designed for realtime, loop-based performance. This cross-platform framework, provides the core-foundation for all future mobile product development at Cakewalk.- Responsible for product planning, definition, architecture, and.

Santa Clara, California, US

Served as the Media Software Architect for Intel's Linux (MeeGo) mobile, television, and embedded platforms. This position involved:- Platform definition, reference video and audio pipeline specifications, GStreamer development, codec evaluation, Linux driver development, hardware/software interface design, and general media framework and api design..

Burlington, MA, US

Responsible for the overall design of a DSP resource management framework. This position involved: - Designing resource optimization algorithms used for allocating limited physical hardware resources (cpu, memory, dma) to software audio effects and plugins. - Designing a framework used to model and manage internal, external, and cache memory; dma.

Cupertino, California, US

Manager of the iPod Video Team for the 3rd generation iPod Nano/6th generation Video iPod.

Cupertino, California, US

Music Applications engineer and designer of an ultra-high performance Disk IO, File Streaming and Data Compression framework for Logic v7.x and Garageband v3.x

Cupertino, California, US

Lead engineer and author of the audio rendering engine for QuickTime v7. This engine provided the foundation for multi-channel audio playback for the QuickTime player, the finder, and multiple iLife applications including iMovie and iDVD.

Responsible for all Windows development at Cycling '74, including Max and Max/MSP. Max/MSP is a visual midi/audio authoring and programming environment.

Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, NL

Designed and implemented a DLS wavetable software synthesizer engine, as well as MP3 audio codec for the Trimedia 1000-series DSP processor.

Redmond, Washington, US

Founding member of the DirectMusic team and developer of early DirectMusic APIs. General development of kernel DLS wavetable synthesizer, and author of multiple DirectShow filters.

San Francisco, CA, US

Software manager for core technology team. Designed and implemented framework for a 2D, drag and drop, sketching application; as well as a cross-platform utility library for AutoCAD.

Cupertino, California, US

Developer of the Mr. CPP compiler. This compiler was 20x faster than original MPW Lucid PPC C++ compiler it replaced.

Developer of Opcode's Vision for Windows midi sequencer - the most influential sequencer / digital audio workstation of its day.

Newbury, Berkshire, GB

Developer of the C++ OWL framework, as well as general C++ compiler front-end work for BC++ v3.x. BC++ was the finest IDE snd C++ compiler and IDE during this era. Borland was one of the most innovative teams I've ever worked with.

Scm, Computer Science

B.A., Mathematics, Philosophy

Undergraduate