Austin Kerbow
SMTS Software Development Engineer at AMD
Sacramento, California, United States
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Top SchoolAustin Kerbow is a compiler-focused software engineer with 11 years of experience, currently an SMTS Software Development Engineer at AMD in Sacramento. He has advanced through multiple engineering levels at AMD since 2019, specializing in the AMDGPU backend and working on ROCm-related compiler toolchains. His LLVM contributions include fixing kernarg preloading crashes, refining hidden kernel-argument handling, optimizing SGPR usage, and improving memory access alignment—work that directly improves GPU compile-time stability and runtime efficiency. Combining academic research experience with production compiler engineering, he bridges low-level performance optimization and pragmatic tooling for high-performance compute. Notably, his open-source work on the widely used llvm/llvm-project demonstrates an ability to diagnose subtle codegen issues and improve test coverage in complex compiler flows.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
California State University, Sacramento
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Github Skills (7)
compiler-optimization10
c-language10
amdgpu10
cprogramming-language10
llvm10
kernel-mode9
kernel9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
llvm/llvm-project
Jan 2023 - Jan 2023
The LLVM Project is a collection of modular and reusable compiler and toolchain technologies.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:99 reviews, 1 commit, 46 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Austin primarily contributed to the LLVM project by addressing issues within the AMDGPU backend. Their work focused on fixing crashes related to kernarg preloading, improving test cases, and refining the handling of hidden kernel arguments. The contributions extended to optimizing SGPR usage and ensuring the correct implementation of memory access alignment within the AMDGPU compilation flow. These changes enhance the stability and efficiency of the AMDGPU compiler.
compilerllvmtoolchain
kerbowa/OptSched
Jul 2019 - May 2023
Optimizing scheduler. Combinatorial instruction scheduling project.
Contributions:14 pushes, 8 branches in 3 years 10 months
schedulingschedulercombinatorialinstructionoptimizing
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