Bill Schmidt
Starter - Ranger at Sea Trail Golf Links
Wichita, Kansas, United States
Summary
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SeniorBill Schmidt is a seasoned technology and operations professional with 15 years of cross-Atlantic experience blending management consulting, IT, marketing, and client-facing roles across healthcare, manufacturing, and services. He has led multi-million dollar system upgrades and HIPAA implementations, built and run a technology firm, and later translated those skills into hands-on technical contributions to LLVM/Clang for PowerPC ABI, vector extensions, and performance fixes. Known for pragmatic project and account leadership, Bill combines deep process re-engineering and stakeholder influence with a broad understanding of diverse IT technologies. His background ranges from IBM development and technical support to founding and marketing a test automation product, reflecting both strategic and executional strengths. Based in Wichita, Kansas, he brings results-oriented leadership, clear communication, and a penchant for fixing hard portability and low-level systems issues that many managers overlook.
15 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (18)
powerpc10
c-language10
architecture10
computer-architecture10
llvm10
data-portability10
compiler-development10
c-programming10
c1110
c1710
abi10
portability10
clangd10
cprogramming-language10
architectures10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
llvm-mirror/clang
Oct 2012 - Dec 2015
Mirror kept for legacy. Moved to https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:52 commits in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Bill's contributions center around implementing and improving code generation and compiler features specifically for the PowerPC (PPC) architecture within the Clang compiler. They focused on addressing ABI compatibility issues, notably for complex number handling and vector data types, ensuring correct code generation for varargs and return types in accordance with the PowerPC ELF ABI. The user has added support for Power8 vector extensions, and addressed performance bottlenecks in unaligned memory access.
keptwindowsllvmcc-plus-plus
llvm/llvm-test-suite
Oct 2012 - Dec 2014
Role in this project:Backend & Systems Engineer
Backend & Systems EngineerContributions:12 commits in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Ulrich Weigand primarily addressed platform-specific issues and ensured code portability within the LLVM test suite. He identified and fixed bugs related to 64-bit big-endian platforms, ensuring correct behavior across different architectures. His contributions also included adapting tests for PowerPC, focusing on signed/unsigned char behavior and Altivec instruction set compatibility. Furthermore, he worked on fixing stack space access in a test and using the correct Altivec interfaces.
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