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Farzon Lotfi

I am a Compiler Developer with a Security and Graphics background.

Atlanta, GA Joined on Apr 30, 2026 https://farzon.org

Education

Georgia Tech

Work

Compilers

Skills/Languages

C\C++

Currently hacking on

Clang\LLVM

28 posts published

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The Geometry of Dragon Ball: A Deep Dive into SDFs and Raymarching

The Geometry of Dragon Ball: A Deep Dive into SDFs and Raymarching

#shaders #caustics #refraction #reflection

5 min read

The Hardest Problem in Engineering Isn't Code (It’s Communication)

The Hardest Problem in Engineering Isn't Code (It’s Communication)

#career #communication #growth

3 min read

The Architecture of Service: Reclaiming the Soul of Technology

The Architecture of Service: Reclaiming the Soul of Technology

#enshittification #faith #service

4 min read

An Android Fuzzing Retrospective Part II: The "Single-VM" Theory and the Bionic Wall

An Android Fuzzing Retrospective Part II: The "Single-VM" Theory and the Bionic Wall

#android #androidx86 #bionic #chroot

3 min read

The Exhausted Overachiever's Guide to Burnout

The Exhausted Overachiever's Guide to Burnout

4 min read

The Quiet Grind: Why Talent is the Least Interesting Thing About You

The Quiet Grind: Why Talent is the Least Interesting Thing About You

#grind #grit #limitless #recovery

3 min read

The Big Tech Pivot: Why a Buyout Isn't an End, It's an Opening

The Big Tech Pivot: Why a Buyout Isn't an End, It's an Opening

#ai #layoffs #retirement

4 min read

A Retrospective on Fuzzing Edge for Android: Looking beyond the Emulator

A Retrospective on Fuzzing Edge for Android: Looking beyond the Emulator

#androidx86 #azure #edge #fuzzing

4 min read

MemGC: A Retrospective on a Bygone Frontline of Browser Security

MemGC: A Retrospective on a Bygone Frontline of Browser Security

#chakra #memgc #security

3 min read

The ROI of Irrationality: What Grad School Actually Taught Me

The ROI of Irrationality: What Grad School Actually Taught Me

#academia #career #goals #gradschool

3 min read

The Benchmarks of a Ghost Ship: On Knowing When to Walk Away

The Benchmarks of a Ghost Ship: On Knowing When to Walk Away

#chakra #growth #ionicsecurity #memgc

4 min read

The "Certainty Tax": Why Big Tech Will Never Use Wine or Darling for CI

The "Certainty Tax": Why Big Tech Will Never Use Wine or Darling for CI

#bigtech #darling #vms #wine

3 min read

The "Warf" Way Part II: Tackling the macOS Frontier with osx-cross and Darling

The "Warf" Way Part II: Tackling the macOS Frontier with osx-cross and Darling

#apple #darling #docker #linux

3 min read

The "Warf" Way: Seamless Windows Testing on Linux using MinGW & Wine

The "Warf" Way: Seamless Windows Testing on Linux using MinGW & Wine

#crosscompile #docker #linux #mingw

3 min read

The Geometry of the Essential: A Look at the Seam Carving Algorithm

The Geometry of the Essential: A Look at the Seam Carving Algorithm

#cpp #computerphotography #computervision #opencv

5 min read

Automating C++ Code Coverage with LLVM and GitHub Actions

Automating C++ Code Coverage with LLVM and GitHub Actions

#clang #coverage #githubactions #llvm

4 min read

Bringing HLSL Support to Clangd: The HLSL teams first GSoC project

Bringing HLSL Support to Clangd: The HLSL teams first GSoC project

#gsoc2026 #hlsl #llvm

2 min read

Intel’s Clean-Slate Bet on the Future of Linux Gaming

Intel’s Clean-Slate Bet on the Future of Linux Gaming

#gaming #intel #linux

3 min read

Beyond Rosetta 2: Why the "Living Binary" Is the Future of Silicon

Beyond Rosetta 2: Why the "Living Binary" Is the Future of Silicon

#apple #ibot #intel #rosetta2

3 min read

Testing HLSL with the LLVM Offload Test Suite in WSL 2

Testing HLSL with the LLVM Offload Test Suite in WSL 2

#gpu #hlsl #linux #llvmoffloadtests

3 min read

From Sidelined to Streamlined: Cracking the Code (Part 2)

From Sidelined to Streamlined: Cracking the Code (Part 2)

#apple #applehealth #iphone #python

3 min read

From Sidelined to Streamlined: Decoding My Apple Watch Metrics (Part 1)

From Sidelined to Streamlined: Decoding My Apple Watch Metrics (Part 1)

#apple #mlp #neuralnetworks #vo2max

3 min read

The Geometry of Light: Understanding the World Through Shaders

The Geometry of Light: Understanding the World Through Shaders

#art #light #math #pixels

2 min read

To the Moon and Back: How a fundamental Algorithm is Navigating the Artemis Missions

To the Moon and Back: How a fundamental Algorithm is Navigating the Artemis Missions

#artemis #nasa #python #kalmanfilter

4 min read

The Eigenvectors of Erid: How the Fourier Transform translated Eridian

The Eigenvectors of Erid: How the Fourier Transform translated Eridian

#andyweir #fourier #matrix

4 min read

Seamless Image Merging: A Guide to Laplacian Pyramid Blending

Seamless Image Merging: A Guide to Laplacian Pyramid Blending

#colab #computerphotography #computervision #gaussian

3 min read

Standardizing HLSL: Bringing the Clang Era to Ecma

Standardizing HLSL: Bringing the Clang Era to Ecma

#clang #directx #ecma #hlsl

3 min read

Using Pin As A Coverage Diagnostic Tool for Fuzzers

Using Pin As A Coverage Diagnostic Tool for Fuzzers

#coverage #fuzzers #pintool

3 min read

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