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Alex Kirchhoff
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Alex Kirchhoff
AI Performance Engineer
Alex is a software engineer specializing in low-level systems performance. Alex previously worked on AI inference in firmware at Apple, and designed substantial portions of Xnor.ai’s inference stack. Alex also has a background in computer security and vulnerability research, with a focus in reverse engineering and binary exploitation. Alex cares about program correctness, understandability, and efficiency, and enjoys learning how things work as well as their failure modes. Alex holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Washington with a minor in Mathematics.