Ashley Coleman
Senior Software Engineer (Programming Languages) at Microsoft
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolAshley Coleman is a Senior Software Engineer specializing in programming languages with 11 years of experience building compilers, runtimes, and developer tooling. Currently at Microsoft working on HLSL, Ashley previously helped design language features and toolchains at SiFive for the wake language targeting RISC‑V and led core platform work on Google's Fuchsia OS. Comfortable both leading teams and shipping low‑level systems, they also have mobile engineering roots as a former Mobile Team Lead and adjunct instructor in C programming. Based in Denver, Ashley combines practical production experience with language-design intuition, and is known for bridging compiler internals with real-world platform constraints.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Kansas State UniversityAssociate’s Degree, Mobile App & Entertainment Development, Associate’s Degree, Mobile App & Entertainment Development at Northwest Kansas Technical College
Github Skills (78)
clang10
shader10
decompilation10
compiler10
llvm10
hlsl10
wake10
gameboy-advance10
toolchain10
reverse-engineering10
directx10
color-palette9
swift9
tilesets9
firmware9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
V-FEXrt/llvm-project
Nov 2024 - May 2026
The LLVM Project is a collection of modular and reusable compiler and toolchain technologies.
Contributions:115 pushes, 30 branches in 1 year 6 months
sifive/wake-extras
Sep 2023 - Aug 2024
A repo for common wake code that isn't specific to any one application
Contributions:4 reviews, 3 PRs, 14 pushes in 10 months
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