Julia Koval
Senior Software Engineer at Xsight Labs
Poland
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Top SchoolJulia Koval is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in compiler and CPU optimizations, GPU shader pipelines, and machine learning/image processing. She spent nearly a decade at Intel driving LLVM- and GCC-based optimizations—introducing novel unsigned-saturation transforms, multiversioning, and ISA/intrinsic support—and contributed performance-focused passes to the widely used intel-graphics-compiler. Her background includes computer vision work on UAV imagery, where she built shadow-removal and tree-detection algorithms and automated dataset generation for ML models. Now based in Poland and currently at Xsight Labs, she combines deep systems-level expertise with practical ML/data tooling to squeeze real-world performance from both hardware and software. A pragmatic researcher at heart, she also organizes rigorous benchmarking infrastructure to quantify gains rather than rely on intuition.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Bauman Moscow State Technical University
English, German, Russian, Polish
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Github Skills (10)
compiler-optimization10
compiler10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
shader10
shaderc10
compilation10
compile10
llvm10
graphic9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
intel/intel-graphics-compiler
Sep 2018 - Jun 2022
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:21 commits in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Julia primarily contributed to the Intel Graphics Compiler (IGC), implementing and optimizing compiler passes. Their work included enabling global dead code elimination, adding a flag for fast math optimizations, and fixing an issue related to ConstantCoalescing. They also worked on implementing a SampleMultiversioning pass for performance improvements and refactored parts of the code base.
Xorboo/GGJ15_Seals
Jan 2015 - Jan 2015
Contributions:17 pushes in 1 day
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