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Ethan Steere

U.S. Citizen | public_mail.alkaline786@passinbox.com

Education

University of Virginia

  • Computer Science (BS) | Aug 2021 - May 2024

  • Graduated in 3 years with Highest Distinction

South Side High School

Work Experience

Cipher Mining

  • Software Engineer | Dec 2024 - Present

  • Cipher Mining is dedicated to developing and operating industrial-scale data centers for both bitcoin mining and HPC infrastructure at the highest standards of innovation, efficiency and safety.
  • Member of the technology team responsible for maintaining on-premise server infrastructure and miner curtailment software.

Parkday

  • Software Engineer | June 2022 - June 2024

  • Parkday is the future of food at work. Parkday provides a corporate catering service where employees order from a diverse menu of individual meals reducing cost, waste, and dissatisfaction.
  • I worked Summer ‘22 and Summer ‘23, Fall ‘23 Semester (Part Time), and the beginning of Summer ‘24.

University of Virginia Physics Department

  • Teaching Assistant | Jan 2022 - May 2023

  • Selected in my Freshman Year for Physics 1 - Mechanics and Thermodynamics

Projects

Capstone

  • Individually developed a C++ library that efficiently performs crucial math operations for Large Language Models

  • UVA graduate thesis project: EGEMV on Intel SoCs
  • Researched the acceleration of memory bound Matrix-Vector multiplication through CPU SIMD and iGPU offloading
  • Github repository includes a full report on the techniques and results, as well as the source code

OpenCL Compiler

  • Individually developed a C++ command line tool that enables convenient GPU programming without vendor lock in

  • Brings a CUDA like development experience to OpenCL
  • Compiles OpenCL code ahead of time to SPIR-V for faster driver initialization
  • Supports CUDA kernel invocation syntax

Teamr (Not Hosted Anymore)

  • Created a fullstack web application for UVA Physics faculty that automatically sorts students into optimal work groups based on a survey of various characteristics

  • Teamr has grouped more than 1000 students across UVA, Virginia Tech, and University of Chicago
  • Won $1000 cash prize in the UVA Entrepreneurship Cup Pitch Competition

Competitions

  • Commonwealth CyberFusion (Capture the Flag) (2023, 2024) : 1st Place, 2nd Place
  • SummitCTF (Capture The Flag) (2023) : 1st Place
  • Information Security Talent Search (Attack Defense) (2023) : 5th Place
  • CyberStorm (Defense) (2023, 2024) : Competition Staff – Red Team

Skills

  • Languages: C/C++, OpenCL-C, Zig, Rust, Go, SQL, JS/TS, Python, Java, Verilog (basic)
  • Tools: PostgreSQL, Docker, SQlite
  • Platforms: AWS, ESXi, Proxmox, Dell iDRAC
  • Frameworks: Astro, SvelteKit, Hono, Tauri