BRADEN STEFANUK

Physicist turned software engineer building at the intersection of AI, semiconductors, and enterprise technology. Senior engineering at AMD, founder of Libra Technologies.

I write, occasionally, on systems, capital, and the craft of building in the modern tech era.

01Work
2024 — now

Senior Software Engineer

Driving technical advancements in AI and HPC applications for AMD's data center GPUs. My main focus is on GEMM performance optimizations, BLAS-stack hardware support, build/test infrastructure, and ROCm ecosystem development.

2021 — 2024

Software Engineer

Built software for autonomous solar-powered unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) used in ocean monitoring, environmental data collection, and maritime research. Developed custom operational systems for DFO, NOAA, CAF, and the DoD.

2020 — 2021

Software Engineer

Developed autonomy and ground control software for commercial-class lunar missions. Contributed research on enabling autonomous navigation and scientific targetting for planetary surface rovers.

02Building
2024 — now

Libra Technologies

Libra Technologies develops blazing-fast AI-powered platforms that help organizations move the needle.

03Stack
AI/ML SYSTEMSHPCSEMICONDUCTORSENGINEERING LEADERSHIPCLOUD ARCHITECTUREPRODUCT STRATEGYGO-TO-MARKET
04Writing — the dispatchAll posts →

No posts published yet — check back soon.

05Education
2019 — 2021

Concordia University

M.A.SC., ELECTRICAL & COMPUTER ENGINEERING · MONTRÉAL, QC

Research on machine learning for planetary surface traversability and novelty detection using autoencoder architectures.

2014 — 2019

University of Calgary

B.SC. HONOURS, PHYSICS · CALGARY, AB

Physics foundation in applied mathematics, quantum mechanics, spectroscopy, and applied computational methods.

06Publications