Joel Jones
Toolchain Lead, Principal Engineer at Qualcomm
California, United States
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Top SchoolJoel 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.
9 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at Arizona State UniversityPhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignBA Computer Science, BA Computer Science at University of Tennessee, Knoxville
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Github Skills (49)
modular10
llvm10
toolchain10
compiler10
clang10
reduction9
file-format9
static-analyzer9
lld9
url-parser8
mime-types8
coding-style8
mono8
php8
git-repository8
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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