Adam Brouwers-harries
Staff Software Engineer at Qualcomm
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAdam Brouwers-harries is a Staff Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building tooling and compilers that help engineers write correct, high-performance software. He has deep expertise in profilers and performance tooling from his work on Firefox's Gecko Profiler and a strong compiler background spanning embedded systems, ML compilers, and GPU functional languages. Comfortable with Rust, Haskell and dependently-typed ideas, he prioritizes correctness, documentation, and a "move-slow-and-fix-things" approach to long-lived systems. A PhD-trained researcher in pervasive parallelism based in Edinburgh, he combines academic rigor with pragmatic engineering at companies including Mozilla, Codeplay, UPMEM and Qualcomm. Outside work he mixes interests in type theory and jazz, reflecting a blend of formal thinking and creative curiosity.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Pervasive Parallelism, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Pervasive Parallelism at The University of EdinburghBachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science at Durham University
Github Skills (5)
rust10
telemetry10
profiling10
json9
testing8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
ellington-project/ellington
Jun 2018 - May 2020
Automated tempo estimation for swing dance DJs
Contributions:47 releases, 242 commits, 27 PRs in 1 year 11 months
djsdesignertemposwingdance
AdamHarries/sparseharness
Jul 2017 - May 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 132 pushes, 4 branches in 10 months
liftspmvharnessesharness
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