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Braden Stefanuk
Braden Stefanuk

About

Trained as a physicist and electrical engineer, I turned to software to solve world's hardest problems.

Through countless iterations of trial, error, and research, I've learned some hard truths about good software: design beats brute force every time, building is easy but maintaining is hard, and great engineering is ultimately about forecasting, good judgement, and trade-offs.

Writing

All posts

I write about semiconductors, technology, AI, and the art of software engineering in these crazy times. Checkout my posts →

Experience

AMD

Senior Software Engineer · Calgary, AB

Current

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.

Open Ocean Robotics

Software Engineer · Victoria, BC

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.

Mission Control

Software Engineer · Ottawa, ON

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

Building

Libra Technologies

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

AI
SaaS
Enterprise
Consulting

Education

Concordia University

Master of Applied Science, Electrical & Computer Engineering · Montréal, QC

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

University of Calgary

Honours Bachelor of Science, Physics · Calgary, AB

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

Publications