Boyana Norris
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Tenstorrent
Eugene, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolBoyana Norris is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 17 years of experience building ML compilers, runtimes, and SDKs—currently designing LLVM MLIR-based toolchains for custom AI hardware. Her work bridges applied research and production engineering, drawing on a long academic career in automated performance tuning, source-to-source analysis, and embeddable DSLs for high-performance scientific computing. She has a deep track record at national labs and universities translating compiler-based automatic differentiation and performance modeling into practical systems, and more recently has focused on integrating compilers with popular AI frameworks. Based in Eugene, Oregon, she combines systems-level rigor with hands-on SDK delivery for startup and hardware-centric teams, making her equally comfortable prototyping novel compiler passes and shipping production runtimes. An often-overlooked strength is her durability across sectors—national lab research, academia, and multiple AI hardware startups—giving her rare perspective on both performance science and product constraints.
17 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Computer Science, Ph.D. Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignB.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at Wake Forest University
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Github Skills (66)
python10
deep-learning10
extensible10
slim10
modular10
architecture10
ml10
neural-network10
generated-code10
open-access10
data-science10
tensorflow10
machine-learning10
software-quality10
compiler-design10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
CAT-SDK/GremCat
Aug 2022 - Oct 2023
Contributions:1 release, 9 pushes, 23 branches in 1 year 2 months
LighthouseHPC/lighthouse
Dec 2011 - Apr 2019
Contributions:932 commits, 380 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 5 months
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