Joel Jones
California, United States
Summary
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RockstarJoel Jones is a principal engineer and toolchain lead with nine years of focused industry experience and decades more in compiler and language-system research, currently driving toolchain strategy at Qualcomm and NUVIA. He brings deep, low-level expertise in language runtimes, JVM internals, and compiler backends (LLVM/GCC) alongside practical optimization work for ARMv8 and other architectures. Joel has led cross-functional teams and international contractors to deliver measurable performance improvements, while still shipping hands‑on compiler passes, JIT work, and runtime changes. His background spans academia and industry—from implementing JITs and register allocators during a PhD to shipping production compiler features at Apple, Marvell, and Cavium—giving him a rare combination of theoretical rigor and production judgment. He prefers batched, asynchronous recruiting contact and is motivated by mentoring others to implement high-quality, low-level systems.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (24)
llvm10
linker10
toolchain10
compiler10
kaitai-struct9
objective-c9
static-analyzer9
blockchain8
ethereum8
evm8
file-format8
svn8
hacklang7
php7
virtual-machine6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
joelkevinjones/COinJ_AppleScript
Apr 2019 - Jan 2022
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 2 years 9 months
joelkevinjones/snippets
Oct 2017 - Jul 2019
Contributions:18 pushes, 4 comments, 4 issues in 1 year 9 months
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