Aidan Dodds
Principal Engineer at Synopsys Inc
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAidan Dodds is a Principal Software Engineer based in Edinburgh with 11 years of experience delivering low-level tooling and verification for processor and compiler ecosystems. He specializes in RISC-V design verification, test generation, compiler optimization, debuggers and simulators, and has practical driver experience with OpenCL. Aidan has progressed through senior engineering roles at Codeplay and Imperas and now contributes at Synopsys, bringing both product-focused delivery and deep technical craftsmanship. He is an active open-source contributor to the LLDB debugger (notably improving GDB remote protocol handling and renderscript runtime behavior), demonstrating a penchant for tackling subtle, hard-to-test issues. Collected experience across verification, compilers and runtime tooling gives him a rare full-path perspective from ISA to user-facing debugging. Trained in Games Software Development, he combines systems-level rigor with an appreciation for performance-sensitive, real-world workloads.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Games Software Development, Games Software Development at Glasgow Caledonian University
Github Skills (8)
debugging10
debug10
c-language10
renderscript10
cprogramming-language10
lldb10
mips9
arm8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
llvm-mirror/lldb
Apr 2015 - Nov 2016
Project moved to: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:34 commits in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Aidan primarily contributed to the LLDB debugger project by fixing bugs and implementing features related to the GDB remote protocol and renderscript runtime. The user addressed issues in the gdb-remote xml parser and the detection of thumb functions. Further contributions included the integration of the $qXfer:Libraries: packet and improvements to the renderscript runtime, including fixes to stack argument handling and the addition of scriptgroup interaction.
llvm
bit-hack/riscv-vm
Sep 2020 - Oct 2020
Contributions:167 commits, 162 pushes, 24 branches in 1 month
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