Gabriel Stang

// oh, hello!

[on request]
[email protected]
gebdev.net/projects
github.com/EarthenSky
float y = x * 0.5f;
long i = *(long *) &x;
i = 0x5f3759df - (i >> 1);
x = *(float *) &i;
return x * (1.5f - (y*x*x));

A new graduate with experience in optimization, graphics, & game dev. Interested in understanding everything about computers!


WORK

OSENSA Innovations Python

// Software Engineering Intern May - Sep 2024 4 month

  • Improved analog pin read speed of our RaspberryPi SDK by 18 times, motivating a new client to adopt the product
  • Diagnosed root cause of inconsistent system degradation with Linux system tooling

Reliable Systems Lab, SFU Rust

// Research Assistant Feb - Sep 2023 8 month

  • Collaborated with peers to find an important optimization for our concolic execution engine
  • Discovered automatic method to detect logic inconsistencies between Rust semantics & the Z3 SMT solver

Safe Software C++

// C++ Software Developer Intern May - Sep 2021 4 month

  • Optimized Geodatabase raster writing, decreasing user wait for long operations by up to 10 times
  • Fixed several issues requiring changes to both the front and backend of the FME desktop application

Brockman Brumme Labs, SFU Python

// Part-time Webtool Programmer Jul 2018 - May 2021 3 year

  • Developed an interactive graph visualization tool in D3.js to help researchers quickly find trends in large amounts of data
  • Updated Perl webtools to modern Python 3 to ease upkeep

PROJECTS

Inst. Segmentation Pytorch

// Computer Vision Nov 2023

  • Avoided overfitting by tuning dropout layers, placing 1st of 107 students on test set

CPU Raytracer Zig

// Personal Project Sep 2023

  • Doubled rendering speed of big scenes by implementing a bounding volume hierarchy

Decaf Compiler C++

// Compiler Design Dec 2020

  • Preemptively identified bugs with Valgrind, passing 99.7% of 751 non-trivial testcases

+ many more :)

SKILLS

Languages
C, C++, C#, Python, Rust, Java, Lua, Haskell, HTML, CSS, JS
Technologies
Unity, SDL2, OpenGL, Git, Vim, ComputeCPP, PyTorch, D3.js

EDUCATION

Simon Fraser University

Computing Science Honours
// Sep 2019 - Apr 2025

  • 3.94 / 4.33 GPA
  • President's Honour Roll (2 terms)

VOLUNTEERING

System Administrator

Computing Science Student Society
// Feb 2024 - Present

  • Maintain sfucsss.org & other services, with FastAPI, Nginx, etc.

Treasurer

Computing Science Student Society
// May 2022 - Apr 2024


President

SFU Game Dev Club
// Mar 2021 - Sep 2024

  • Bi-weekly meetings, industry speakers, 24-hour game jam

INTERESTS

  • Composing music - won the 4-month NGADM 2022 competition
  • Indie games - my favourites are Celeste and Factorio
  • Learning programming languages
  • Hard problems in math & computer science