Jordan Anderson

I find the gap between what an institution’s contract claims and what its implementation actually does, and write the patch.

I · Technical

Deep diagnosis and infrastructure fixes on complex systems.

Low-level systems work where the bug class is non-obvious and the spec and the implementation have quietly diverged.

Recent work has focused on the OpenVINO GPU plugin — Intel’s inference framework that ships on every Core Ultra AI PC and across the installed base of Gen 9.5+ Intel integrated and discrete GPUs. I identified and fixed a driver-regression bug class affecting int4 quantized LLM inference on modern NEO drivers (23.x and newer), traced the root cause to a divergence between the cl_intel_subgroups extension contract and what NEO actually exposes, and upstreamed the fix.

Recent

Available for contract work on inference performance, low-level systems diagnosis, and infrastructure debugging — particularly where the problem sits at the seam between vendor driver, framework, and application.

II · Policy

Strategic and regulatory analysis for industrial and defense sectors.

Long-form analysis on industrial capability, regulatory architecture, and the institutional seams where contract and implementation diverge.

The diagnostic stance carries across domains. I read complex regulatory and industrial systems the same way I read complex codebases: trace the contract, find where the implementation drifted, write up what the gap means and what to do about it.

Recent areas

Available for retainer engagements with defense industry trade associations, investment firms with international exposure, and policy shops working on industrial capability and regulatory architecture questions.

III · Contact

Writing. Set in Fraunces and EB Garamond.