George Shao

Hi, I'm a software engineer in Toronto, studying Computer Science at the University of Waterloo.

You can reach me by email at GeorgeShao123@gmail.com

Work

I'll be joining Tesla in June 2026.

I've previously worked on:

• AI for enterprise accounting at Maxima
• high-performance distributed storage systems powering Grok at xAI
• full-stack at ETHGlobal
• payments infra at Drop

Open-Source

Arcade (Graphics Rendering Library): Optimized memory management, achieving 1500% FPS increase on low-end GPUs.

TorchSnapshot: Patched Pytorch's ML model checkpointing library, increasing performance by reducing client authentication overhead and integrating multipart uploads.

Also contributed to Immich (Google Photos Alternative).