James Decker
ML Compiler Engineer at Gensyn
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Decker is an ML compiler engineer with 11 years’ experience building tooling and compilers that boost programmer productivity across heterogeneous and reconfigurable architectures. He has led performance infrastructure and compiler teams at Modular and SambaNova, marrying metaprogramming and MLIR-based embedded DSLs to target proprietary CGRA and distributed AI runtimes. His work spans debugging and profiling tooling, runtime integration, and multi-stage programming techniques informed by research stints at Purdue and Stanford. Currently at Gensyn, he focuses on making sophisticated hardware targets accessible to developers, with a practical knack for turning academic compiler ideas into production-quality developer ergonomics. An educator-turned-engineer, he pairs deep compiler research with hands-on systems and customer-facing problem solving.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Utah State UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) (Incomplete) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) (Incomplete) Computer Science at Purdue University
German, Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian
Github Skills (43)
mojo9
creative-commons8
visual-programming-language8
reader8
browser8
modular8
staging7
lms7
scala7
windows7
linux7
abstract-interpretation7
parquet7
symbolic-execution7
macos6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jmd1011/snek-LMS
Feb 2018 - Apr 2019
Implementation of Lightweight Modular Staging (LMS) in Python
Contributions:215 commits, 2 PRs, 142 pushes in 1 year 1 month
staginglmspythonmodular
jmd1011/parquet-readers
Jun 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:150 commits, 6 PRs, 44 pushes in 7 months
parquetpurdueapachesparkscala
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