Evan Kazakin

I study combinatorics, optimization, and pure math at the University of Waterloo, with a minor in computer science. I’ve interned as a software engineer at Achievers and Intuit, and I build things on the side. I’m seeking new-grad software engineering roles for 2027.

Writing

  1. On Tailored SoftwareThe things you can do when the cost of simple software is a rounding error.
  2. Human InteractionMaking your parents feel the AGI, best friends in your pocket coming soon.

Projects

Qwen3.8 Inference screenshot

2026llama.cpp / HIP / Python

Qwen3.8 Inference

Runs a 27B LLM entirely in 16 GB of VRAM on a consumer AMD GPU and tunes it to drive a coding agent: speculative decoding took decode from 33 to 59 tokens/s, and custom HIP kernels sped up ternary-model prefill by 53%. Every change is backed by checked-in benchmarks.

Macasnap screenshot

2026Swift

Macasnap

Menu bar screenshot beautifier that replaces Cmd-Shift-4. Snippets land on a gradient or your wallpaper with padding, rounded corners, and a shadow, then go straight to the clipboard.

Cine-Vector screenshot

2026Python / FastAPI / React

Cine-Vector

Semantic search over 4,800+ movies: describe a vibe in plain language and get matches ranked by sentence-transformer embeddings, served from an in-memory NumPy vector store.

Contact

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