Anton Zabaznov
GPU Compiler Backend Engineer at Apple
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAnton Zabaznov is a GPU compiler backend engineer with six years of hands-on C/C++ experience building and optimizing compiler toolchains for high-performance accelerators. He has driven backend development at Intel and Cerebras, contributing to Intel's graphics compiler and OpenCL C 3.0 support in Clang and later tackling MLIR-based graph lowering, instruction selection, and auto-generation frameworks for compiler descriptions. At Cerebras he combined MC-layer optimizations, static binary analysis with BOLT, and architecture-specific code layout work; his Intel contributions included vector inline assembly and LLVM wrappers to improve compatibility. Now at Apple, he continues to focus on code generation and target-independent transformations for GPUs. Anton pairs deep academic training in applied math and physics with pragmatic engineering, often improving build systems and maintainability in widely used open-source projects like intel-graphics-compiler. He is notable for bridging low-level MC optimizations with higher-level compiler autogeneration efforts, reducing friction between LLVM internals and production toolchains.
6 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Applied Mathematics and Physics, Master's degree Applied Mathematics and Physics at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) (MIPT)Bachelor's degree Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree Software Engineering at Bauman Moscow State Technical University
Github Skills (7)
compiler-design10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
llvm10
code-generation9
build-system9
graphic8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
intel/intel-graphics-compiler
Oct 2019 - Mar 2022
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:63 commits in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Anton focused on enhancing the build system and core code generation components of the intel-graphics-compiler repository. Their contributions included implementing new methods for operand printing and modifying build processes to clear text streams when adding new kernels or functions, specifically within the visa directory. They also added wrappers for LLVM libraries for improved compatibility. These changes suggest work on improving the compiler's functionality and maintainability.
azabazno/OpenCL-Docs
Oct 2020 - Dec 2021
OpenCL API, Extensions, and Environment Spec sources.
Contributions:4 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 2 months
apispecextensionsopencl-apisources
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