Knute Lingaard is a Principal Engineer skilled in performance/functional modeling, software design, C++, and Python. He is the lead designer and developer of the open source GitHub project Sparcians (https://github.com/sparcians): a C++/Python project providing discrete event-driven simulation frameworks, performance/analysis tools, and example models. Currently Knute Lingaard is a Performance Architect at SiFive where he contributes to the design/implementation of SiFive high performance CPU designs.