Alyssa Rosenzweig

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Alyssa Rosenzweig
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BornDecember 2001 (age 22) [1]
Nationality USA [1]
Known for Asahi Linux GPU drivers
Notable work Panfrost
Website rosenzweig.io

Alyssa Rosenzweig is a software developer [2] and software freedom activist [3] known for her work on free software graphics drivers. [4] [5]

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Education

Per Rosenzweig's description of her childhood, she grew up in California and came out as a transgender woman at age 10. [6] She was raised Jewish [6] and is now a Quaker. [1]

Rosenzweig attended Dougherty Valley High School, with enrichment classes at Harvard Summer School and the Center for Talented Youth. [7]

As of 2021, she studies mathematics at Innis College at the University of Toronto as a Lester B. Pearson International Scholar. [8] [9] [7]

Career

As a software engineer at Collabora, she led the Panfrost project, [10] developing free software OpenGL drivers for the Mali GPU to support accelerated graphics in upstream Mesa, [11] shipping out-of-the-box on devices like the Pinebook Pro. [12] She left Collabora on 10 April 2023. [13] Since May of 2023, she has worked with Valve Corporation as a contractor. [14]

In September 2020, she wrote a Linux client for the COVID-19 contact tracing used in Canada. [4]

As an Asahi Linux developer, she works on reverse-engineering the Apple GPU for the purpose of porting Linux to the Apple M1 processor [15] [16] [17] to enable the development of a free software Gallium3D-based OpenGL driver [18] targeting the "AGX" architecture found in the M1 GPU. [19] In July 2021, Rosenzweig demonstrated Debian running bare metal on the Apple M1 with a mainline kernel. [20]

Awards

She is the recipient of the 2020 Award for Outstanding New Free Software Contributor [21] [22] and a Google Open Source Peer Bonus. [23]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Rosenzweig, Alyssa (2019-12-09). "America's Rough Draft".
  2. ↑ Vaughan-Nichols, Steven J. (21 Jan 2021). "Corellium ports Linux to Apple M1 Mac mini". ZDnet. Archived from the original on 22 January 2021. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
  3. ↑ Morgenstein, Dana (6 Mar 2020). "Celebrating women in free software for International Women's Day". Free Software Foundation . Archived from the original on 6 June 2021. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
  4. 1 2 Grüner, Sebastian (9 Sep 2020). "Bluetooth-Kontaktverfolgung geht auch auf Laptops". Golem.de . Archived from the original on 6 June 2021. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
  5. ↑ Rosenzweig, Alyssa. "Her personal website". Archived from the original on 2021-08-29.
  6. 1 2 Rosenzweig, Alyssa (2023-05-21). "Growing up Alyssa".
  7. 1 2 Rosenzweig, Alyssa. "Resume" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2020-09-25.
  8. ↑ "Meet the 2019 Pearson Scholars". University of Toronto. 2019. Archived from the original on 6 June 2021. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
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