Diego Novillo
Principal Compiler Engineer at NVIDIA
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolDiego Novillo is a Principal Compiler Engineer with a PhD in computing science and over 25 years of expertise in C/C++ and shader compiler development. He has led graphics infrastructure and compiler teams at Google and now drives compiler work at NVIDIA, focusing on Vulkan, GPU performance, and XR rendering optimizations. Diego helped architect GCC’s SSA global optimization framework and advanced OpenMP, LTO, and alias analysis, and he built an LLVM profile-guided facility that ingests Linux perf samples to steer optimizations. He blends deep research pedigree with hands-on systems delivery, routinely shipping profilers, debuggers, compilers, and reference implementations for first-party partners. As a manager and mentor he sets technical roadmaps and cultivates engineering growth while remaining actively involved in low-level design and code generation across diverse architectures. Based in Toronto, he is known for turning complex optimization theory into practical tooling that measurably improves graphics and compute performance.
3 years of coding experience
32 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at University of AlbertaBsC Computing Science, BsC Computing Science at Universidad Centro de Altos Estudios en Ciencias Exactas (Universidad CAECE)
Spanish, English
Github Skills (11)
hosts9
shader9
hlsl9
directx8
llvm-clang8
wgsl8
clang7
cpp7
bgfx7
llvm6
compiler5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
diegonovillo/Unity-Fluid-Simulation
Jun 2024 - Aug 2024
Fluid Simulation Implementation in Compute Shaders using Unity3D
Contributions:4 pushes in 2 months
microsoft/DirectXShaderCompiler
Jan 2023 - Jan 2023
This repo hosts the source for the DirectX Shader Compiler which is based on LLVM/Clang.
Contributions:1 review in 1 day
directx-shader-compilercppclangbgfxhosts
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