George Burgess
Software Engineer at Google
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGeorge Burgess is a software engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in compiler internals, tooling, and low-level system work, currently contributing to LLVM and Clang at Google from the San Francisco Bay Area. He has a strong track record of improving compiler behavior and safety features—ranging from Clang/LLVM availability checks and object-size handling to Android Bionic FORTIFY support—demonstrating both language-lawyer expertise and security-minded engineering. Past internships at Microsoft and early contributions to Android and Breakpad reveal a versatile background spanning kernel/user-mode code, managed-runtime performance, and robust test automation. He pairs deep C/C++ and tooling knowledge with practical systems experience (e.g., fixing lmkd memory bugs), and he often augments his fixes with targeted tests to prevent regressions. Not obvious from the title: many of his contributions are to high-profile, foundational projects (LLVM/Clang, AOSP) where subtle correctness changes have outsized impact on downstream ecosystems.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech
Github Skills (39)
unit-testing10
c-language10
static-analysis10
clang-tidy10
system-programming10
abstract-syntax-tree10
llvm10
testing10
compiler-development10
memory-management10
c1110
java10
security10
c1710
header-files10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
llvm/llvm-project
Nov 2019 - Apr 2025
The LLVM Project is a collection of modular and reusable compiler and toolchain technologies.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:18 reviews, 16 PRs, 32 pushes in 5 years 5 months
Contributions summary:George primarily contributed to the LLVM project by modifying and extending the clang compiler's behavior, specifically concerning the handling of `__builtin_available` and availability attributes. They implemented support for negation and parentheses within the availability checks, enabling more flexible conditional compilation. The user also addressed a behavior discrepancy in the libc's string functions and fixed a critical bug with `strrchr`. Additionally, they made a documentation change related to the LLVM Discord bot.
compilerstechnologiesclangsubmittoolchain
llvm-mirror/clang
Aug 2015 - Aug 2019
Mirror kept for legacy. Moved to https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:159 commits in 4 years
Contributions summary:George contributed to the Clang compiler project by modifying the code related to the built-in object size function, specifically improving its accuracy and handling of various edge cases. They addressed issues involving incorrect results for subobjects, array handling, and invalid bases, making the function more conservative. Furthermore, the user added a test case to verify correct behavior of the improved object size function.
keptwindowsllvmcc-plus-plus
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