David Salinas
Member Of Technical Staff at AMD
Markham, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Salinas is a seasoned software engineer and technical leader with over 15 years building compilers, enterprise C/C++ and Java systems, and shipping more than 25 product releases across diverse platforms. He has led teams of 5–20 engineers and testers, driven Agile/process improvements, and coordinated training for 200+ developers, blending hands-on systems programming with people and delivery management. His deep compiler expertise spans AMDGPU/HCC work at AMD and long-standing contributions to IBM’s XL C/C++ toolchain—including “Debug at Optimization” and Decimal Floating Point support—proving his ability to solve tricky low-level problems that matter to large customers. Comfortable working in both the US and Canada, he pairs cross-functional communication with a knack for automating testing and migration efforts that cut time-to-market and improve product quality.
9 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BSc. Hons Computer Science, BSc. Hons Computer Science at Western University
Github Skills (40)
modular10
llvm10
hip10
gpu10
toolchain10
cuda10
heterogeneous10
compiler10
portability10
git-mirror10
clang10
opencl9
c-compiler9
cpp8
amr8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
david-salinas/HIPCC
May 2022 - Aug 2023
HIPCC: HIP compiler driver
Contributions:2 PRs, 76 pushes, 21 branches in 1 year 3 months
compilerhip
david-salinas/HIP
Mar 2018 - Aug 2022
HIP : Convert CUDA to Portable C++ Code
Contributions:16 pushes, 6 branches in 4 years 6 months
cudacppgpuc-plus-plusportable
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