Finley Mcilwaine
Principal Software Engineer at Anduril Industries
Redmond, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolFinley Mcilwaine is a Principal Software Engineer with seven years of experience specializing in functional programming and high-performance systems, currently based in Redmond, Oregon. He has deep Haskell expertise, contributing to the Glasgow Haskell Compiler where his work improved error messaging, reduced space leaks, and refactored core type-checking and renaming interfaces. Finley has built scalable production systems—from a high-throughput insurance rating platform and AWS-hosted SaaS to compiler and language tooling—delivering orders-of-magnitude performance gains in multiple projects. He combines hands-on engineering with teaching and consulting experience, having authored educational articles, given conference talks, and designed automated CI grading for university courses. That blend of compiler internals, cloud infrastructure, and developer tooling gives him a rare ability to optimize both low-level language semantics and end-to-end production performance.
7 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at University of Wyoming
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Github Skills (13)
compiler-development10
type-system10
haskell10
ghc10
error-handling9
code-optimization9
visual-studio-code6
android-studio6
docker6
javascript6
android6
omnisharp6
java6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ghc/ghc
Oct 2022 - Oct 2022
Mirror of the Glasgow Haskell Compiler. Please submit issues and patches to GHC's Gitlab instance (https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc). First time contributors are encouraged to get started with the newcomers info (https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/wikis/contributing).
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 commit in 1 day
Contributions summary:Finley contributed to the Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC) by implementing and improving the compiler's error messages, particularly for newtype GADTs. They refactored and improved existing code related to type checking. The user also focused on addressing space leaks and refactoring the rename interface, enhancing its efficiency and memory usage.
ghcget-startednewcomershaskellcabal
FinleyMcIlwaine/plutus-prototype
Apr 2020 - Jul 2021
The Plutus language implementation and tools
Contributions:4 PRs, 51 pushes, 10 branches in 1 year 3 months
plutus
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