Dimi Racordon
Assistant Professor at HES-SO Valais
Switzerland
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Top SchoolDimi Racordon is an assistant professor and language-focused researcher with 12 years of experience building compilers, programming-language analyses, and practical developer tools. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Geneva and has held postdoctoral positions at EPFL, Northeastern, and Geneva, bridging rigorous research with hands-on compiler engineering. An active contributor to the Hylo programming language, his commits show deep involvement in core IR design, borrowing/capability tracking, and compiler infrastructure rather than surface tooling. He has also mixed academia with industry experience as a former CTO, bringing product-minded pragmatism to research projects. Based in Switzerland, he balances technical depth with eclectic interests—language design, casual running, cheese, and StarCraft II—that reflect a methodical yet playful problem-solving style.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Very good, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Very good at University of GenevaBachelor of Science HES-SO, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science HES-SO, Computer Science at Haute école du paysage, d'ingénierie et d'architecture de Genève - HEPIA
English, French, Japanese
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Github Skills (15)
language-design10
intermediate-code10
intermediate-language10
compiler-development10
flask9
type-check9
type-checking9
memory-management8
constexpr6
swift6
code-generation6
progress-bar6
loops6
python6
clang6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
hylo-lang/hylo
Jan 2021 - Jan 2023
The Hylo programming language
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1111 reviews, 1404 commits, 1242 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Dimi's commits focus on the core language and compiler development for the Hylo programming language. The user made changes to the compiler infrastructure by removing transpilation of Val semantics to C++, renaming IR instructions, refactoring IR printing, and adding features like operand conventions and the capability to track capabilities requested by borrowing instructions. The changes reflect a focus on improving the core functionality of the compiler and improving its capabilities.
compiler-optimizationcompilerprogramming-languagevalllvm
hylo-lang/hylo-lang.github.io
Jul 2022 - Nov 2022
Landing page for Hylo
Contributions:20 reviews, 56 commits, 8 PRs in 4 months
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