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# Andrew Wafaa
GenAI engineering lead at Arm focusing on open source architecture and hardware optimization.

## About

Andrew Wafaa leads generative AI engineering and serves as a distinguished engineer at Arm. He runs the company's Open Source Office, bringing over two decades of enterprise open source background to his role. Beyond Arm, he helps steer major initiatives by sitting on foundation boards for FreeBSD, Rust, Xen, and the Yocto Project.

His work focuses on unifying fragmented software landscapes to make compute more accessible. Andrew frequently details open source stacks for AI acceleration and hardware optimization, breaking down how developers can build systems that reliably run across diverse architectures.



## Past Sessions

### World Congress 2025 · July 9, 2025
Berlin, Germany
- [From Model to Metal: An Open Source Stack for Accelerating Intelligence](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1636-from-model-to-metal-an-open-source-stack-for-accelerating-intelligence) · 30 min · 🎥 Watch recording

### World Congress 2024 · July 17, 2024
Berlin, Germany
- [Unleashing the Full Potential of the Arm Architecture – Write Once, Deploy Anywhere](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/940-unleashing-the-full-potential-of-the-arm-architecture-write-once-deploy-anywhere) · 30 min · 🎥 Watch recording



## Videos

- [From Model to Metal: An Open Source Stack for Accelerating Intelligence](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1636-from-model-to-metal-an-open-source-stack-for-accelerating-intelligence) · Andrew Wafaa
- [Unleashing the Full Potential of the Arm Architecture – Write Once, Deploy Anywhere](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/940-unleashing-the-full-potential-of-the-arm-architecture-write-once-deploy-anywhere) · Andrew Wafaa


## Links

- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewwafaa/)