Ivan G
Principal Software Engineer at AMD
Munich, Bavaria, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIvan G is a Principal Software Engineer with 11+ years of hands-on experience in OS internals, hypervisors, and computer architecture, currently working at AMD after a decade of systems research and engineering at Intel. He blends industrial kernel and firmware enabling for Linux and Windows with academic-style pathfinding on power-efficient, exascale and graph-analytics processors, and holds a PhD from Georgia Tech. Ivan routinely tackles open-ended systems problems—from bringing up new processor features and fixing errata to developing compiler and MLIR backend optimizations—and contributes to prominent open-source toolchains such as LLVM and Numba. Known for independent research and pragmatic system design, he has a track record of turning blue-sky ideas into robust prototypes and production-ready fixes, including dynamic compilation and safer thread handling across forks. Based in Munich, he combines low-level debugging grit with high-level architectural insight to drive both performance and scalability.
11 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBA, Computer Science, BA, Computer Science at American University in Bulgaria
Bulgarian
Github Skills (22)
c-language10
parallel10
parallelization10
multithreading10
llvm10
mlr10
parallel-processing10
tbb10
compiler-design10
parallel-computing10
cprogramming-language10
dataflow9
python9
compiler-compiler9
backend9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
llvm/llvm-project
Sep 2020 - Apr 2025
The LLVM Project is a collection of modular and reusable compiler and toolchain technologies.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:255 reviews, 126 PRs, 143 pushes in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Ivan primarily contributed to the LLVM project by implementing and optimizing code related to the MLIR (Multi-Level Intermediate Representation) framework. Their work involved transforming and canonicalizing code, particularly in the area of `scf.while` loop uplifting, and also extending the integer range analysis capabilities to support vector types. They also made changes to improve the tooling and testing infrastructure, including verification of canonicalizations and the addition of a utility script for verification against Alive2.
compilerstechnologiesclangsubmittoolchain
ldc-developers/ldc
Dec 2016 - Sep 2019
The LLVM-based D Compiler.
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:177 commits, 75 PRs, 26 pushes in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Ivan primarily contributed to the LDC compiler, focusing on improving the dynamic compilation support. Their work included implementing the `SCOPE_EXIT` helper construct, integrating it into existing code, and renaming and refactoring related files. They also added support for dynamic compilation and worked on the bind features and the correct handling of several edge cases.
compilerldcdlangllvmd
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