Benjamin Driscoll
Computer Scientist
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarBenjamin Driscoll is a computer scientist and Stanford PhD student focused on programming languages and compilers, with nine years of software engineering experience and a dual CS and Math degree from UC Berkeley. Based in Palo Alto, he blends deep academic research with practical systems work, especially on LLVM internals where he has contributed memory-allocation safety, target-triple handling, and documentation improvements to the Inkwell wrapper. His contributions reflect a strong grasp of low-level mechanics and edge cases—ensuring safe handling of unsized types and robust target configuration across projects. Comfortable navigating both research and production code, he brings rigor from formal study plus hands-on debugging of compiler-runtime interactions. Colleagues rely on him for technically challenging problems that require careful correctness reasoning as well as pragmatic engineering.
9 years of coding experience
Github Skills (6)
rust10
api10
wrapper10
codegen10
llvm10
jit9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
TheDan64/inkwell
Jan 2020 - Mar 2020
It's a New Kind of Wrapper for Exposing LLVM (Safely)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 2 PRs, 17 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Benjamin primarily contributed to the Inkwell project by implementing and refining core functionalities related to memory allocation and target triple management within the LLVM wrapper. They focused on ensuring the safe handling of memory operations, including checks for unsized types during `malloc` and `array_malloc` calls, and returning appropriate results. Furthermore, the user updated the module's target triple functionality and documentation, and they addressed issues related to target triple handling across the project, reflecting a deep understanding of LLVM's low-level mechanics and potential pitfalls.
wrapperapicodegenjitrust
morphic-lang/morphic
Dec 2023 - Mar 2025
Pure functional programming with whole-program mutability inference
Contributions:1 PR, 92 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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