Being an engineer at heart, I love hearing about what people do for work or for their hobbies, because I am fascinated by processes.
In case you are curious about my job, it is to make my team's product cool 8-). In the thermal sense.
Program managers provide us with pain points - places where they want less latency or power usage.
We are lucky in that our job is made quite simple by sophisticated tools that have been provided to us, in order to measure, visualize, and understand the factors that contribute to latency and power usage: the utilization of various processors and co-processors, and the bandwidth on various memory buses. This helps us identify bottlenecks and figure out where and how to optimize code.
I love performance analysis and working on platform code - it is data-driven, and involves a lot of creative thinking and problem solving. I love getting a chance to take the time to scrub code until it shines. I prefer platform development to application development, which I feel is more fast-paced and feature-driven, and places less emphasis on being solidly written.
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