Adam Yang
Senior Graphics Compiler Engineer at NVIDIA
Bothell, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAdam Yang is a Senior Graphics Compiler Engineer with eight years of experience building shader compilers and backend code generation for major graphics platforms. He spent nearly a decade at Microsoft working on the Xbox shader compiler and now applies that deep shader and LLVM expertise at NVIDIA. Adam has contributed to prominent open-source projects like the LLVM project and the DirectX Shader Compiler, implementing shader intrinsics (e.g., radians) and cross-backend memory and synchronization intrinsics that improved SPIR-V and DXIL codegen. He pairs low-level mastery of instruction selection and memory management with practical debugging and debug-info improvements, making him effective at shipping robust compiler features across targets. Based in Bothell, WA, he brings a Waterloo software engineering foundation and a knack for bridging research-quality compiler work with production graphics needs.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Software Engineering at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (11)
spirv10
memory-management10
code-generation10
c-language10
dx10
cprogramming-language10
dxc10
llvm10
debug9
compiler-design9
debugging9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
microsoft/DirectXShaderCompiler
Oct 2017 - Jan 2023
This repo hosts the source for the DirectX Shader Compiler which is based on LLVM/Clang.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:318 reviews, 183 commits, 378 PRs in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Adam primarily worked on the DirectX Shader Compiler, focusing on improving and fixing aspects of the code. They made changes to the memory management, replacing delete with IMalloc::Free for releasing resources, indicating expertise in memory handling within the compiler. The user initialized malloc objects in specific files related to shader compiler components, while also adding debug info support in the project.
directx-shader-compilercppclangbgfxhosts
llvm/llvm-project
Sep 2024 - Mar 2025
The LLVM Project is a collection of modular and reusable compiler and toolchain technologies.
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:42 reviews, 23 PRs, 8 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:Adam primarily contributed to the LLVM project by adding and implementing the `radians` intrinsic for various backends, including SPIRV and DXIL, and by adding `GroupMemoryBarrierWithGroupSync` intrinsics, also for various backends. This involved modifying instruction selection, intrinsic expansion, and code generation to support the new functionality across multiple target platforms. The user's work focused on enhancing the compiler's capabilities related to shader intrinsics.
compilerstechnologiesclangsubmittoolchain
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