Eric Miotto
Compiler Development Tools Engineer at Apple
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Top SchoolEric Miotto is a Compiler Development Tools Engineer with 14–16 years of hands-on software experience, currently focused on maintaining and reworking Swift’s build systems at Apple. He specializes in build automation, cross-platform compilation and diagnostic triage—reducing compiler build times, enabling bridgeOS executables, and simplifying standard library builds across Apple platforms. Comfortable with CMake, Python, ninja and shell scripting, he also contributes to high-profile open-source projects like swift and swift-driver, improving CI-friendly builds and architectural compatibility. Eric combines theoretical understanding with pragmatic tradeoff decisions, rapidly troubleshooting complex integration issues even with minimal context. He keeps skills sharp by exploring adjacent fields such as DSP, real-time/embedded systems and psychology-influenced problem solving, and has applied DSP prototyping experience to audio projects during an Apple internship.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Laurea Specialistica (Master's Degree) Computer Science, Laurea Specialistica (Master's Degree) Computer Science at Università degli Studi di PadovaGeneral certificate of Secondary Education -- computer science Information Technology, General certificate of Secondary Education -- computer science Information Technology at ITIS Negrelli
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Github Skills (26)
ninja10
llvm10
cmake10
cicd10
build-automation10
swift10
scripting9
pyscript9
python9
sqlite9
python-scripts9
watchos9
azure9
script9
cprogramming-language8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
swiftlang/swift
May 2022 - Jan 2023
The Swift Programming Language
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:323 reviews, 27 commits, 407 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Eric's contributions primarily involve modifying build scripts and CMake files within the Swift programming language repository. Their work focuses on adapting to new signatures, extracting logic, and updating build configurations, especially concerning LLVM and libcxx integration. They also addressed platform-specific build issues, particularly around watchOS and simulator targets, and added features for API descriptor generation. These changes reflect a focus on improving the build process and cross-platform compatibility.
swift-programmingswift-programming-languageprogramming-languageswift
swiftlang/swift-driver
Oct 2020 - Sep 2022
Swift compiler driver reimplementation in Swift
Role in this project:Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:8 reviews, 13 commits, 14 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Eric's contributions primarily revolve around enhancing the build process of the Swift compiler driver. They focused on refining the build script helper, specifically optimizing the build process for llbuild by skipping unnecessary tests. They added functionality to install llbuild and ArgumentParser and improved the build process by using a separate module cache to prevent interference from concurrent builds in CI environments. Furthermore, the user addressed architectural details related to Darwin architectures.
compilerswiftreimplementationswift-compiler
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