Evan Wilde
Senior Software Engineer at Apple
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEvan Wilde is a Senior Software Engineer on Apple’s Swift compiler team with 12 years of systems and compiler-focused experience. He blends deep academic training—a BS(Hons) and MS from the University of Victoria—with practical compiler work spanning LLVM/Clang optimizations and Swift runtime and concurrency features. At Apple he has shipped runtime and task-management fixes and improved platform compatibility across core libraries, drawing on prior internship work that involved presenting results to senior executives. An active open-source contributor, Evan has helped stabilize swift-corelibs-foundation, added Swift support and dependency correctness to CMake, and debugged concurrency primitives in the swiftlang repo. His research background includes implementing implicit-surface “blob tree” modeling and visualizing commit integration in large Git histories—skills that underline both his graphics and software-engineering breadth. Based in the United States, he combines low-level performance tuning with cross-platform build and tooling expertise to keep large language ecosystems reliable.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at University of VictoriaHigh School, High School at Clackamas High SchoolPortland State University
Japanese, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (29)
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debug10
c-language10
testing10
build-system10
cmake10
c1110
c1710
compatibility10
build-automation10
swift10
cprogramming-language10
concurrency10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
swiftlang/swift
Dec 2021 - Jan 2023
The Swift Programming Language
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:659 reviews, 79 commits, 681 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Evan focused on implementing and debugging concurrency features within the Swift programming language. They addressed issues related to task management, including debugging the `AsyncTask::waitFuture` implementation and modifying related macros. The user also updated the runtime library by modifying thread-local storage, code relating to thread sanitization and adding a hook for main queue draining. They also addressed various test failures by removing tests, applying availability attributes, and addressing code changes in the test files.
swift-programmingswift-programming-languageprogramming-languageswift
swiftlang/swift-corelibs-foundation
Sep 2021 - Jul 2022
The Foundation Project, providing core utilities, internationalization, and OS independence
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:20 reviews, 9 commits, 27 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Evan primarily contributed to core foundation libraries within the swift-corelibs-foundation repository. Their commits involved reverting code changes, addressing build issues, and fixing broken dependencies. They also worked on adjusting the build configuration for different platforms and integrated features to enable broader compatibility. These changes were crucial for maintaining the project's stability and ensuring its proper functioning across diverse environments.
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