Alyssa Rosenzweig | |
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Notable work | Panfrost |
Alyssa Rosenzweig is a software developer[1] and software freedom activist[2] known for her work on free software graphics drivers.[3][4]
Rosenzweig attended Dougherty Valley High School, with enrichment classes at Harvard Summer School and the Center of Talented Youth.[5]
As of 2021, she studies mathematics at Innis College at the University of Toronto as a Lester B. Pearson International Scholar.[6][7][5]
As a software engineer at Collabora, she led the Panfrost project,[8] developing free software OpenGL drivers for the Mali GPU to support accelerated graphics in upstream Mesa,[9] shipping out-of-the-box on devices like the Pinebook Pro.[10] She left Collabora on 10 April 2023.[11] Since May of 2023, she has worked with Valve Corporation as a contractor.[12]
In September 2020, she wrote a Linux client for the COVID-19 contact tracing used in Canada.[3]
As an Asahi Linux developer, she works on reverse-engineering the Apple GPU for the purpose of porting Linux to the Apple M1 processor[13][14][15] to enable the development of a free software Gallium3D-based OpenGL driver[16] targeting the "AGX" architecture found in the M1 GPU.[17] In July 2021, Rosenzweig demonstrated Debian running bare metal on the Apple M1 with a mainline kernel.[18]
She is the recipient of the 2020 Award for Outstanding New Free Software Contributor[19][20] and a Google Open Source Peer Bonus.[21]