Julian Walker
Software Engineer at Google DeepMind
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJulian Walker is a seasoned software engineering leader with 15 years of experience building and scaling teams from seed to 20+ engineers and shipping products across mobile, web, back-end, and ML compilation domains. He blends hands-on technical depth—working on ML compiler codegen, JAX Pallas kernel optimization for TPUs, and build/test automation for the IREE project—with proven people leadership and cross-disciplinary collaboration across UX and product. As a former founder and head of engineering at FiftyThree, he led products with tens of millions of users and guided acquisition by WeTransfer, and later managed ML compilation teams at Google focused on open-source IREE. Julian’s strengths include mentoring new managers, operationalizing complex CI/CD and profiling tooling, and finding pragmatic paths from research to production. Based in Seattle, he brings a rare mix of product intuition, systems-level engineering, and a penchant for improving developer workflows behind large-scale ML infrastructure.
15 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at University of Washington
Github Skills (19)
github-ci10
bash10
automation10
automations10
githubaction-workflow10
devops10
mlr9
build-automation9
compiler-compiler9
compiler9
tensorflow8
c-language7
cprogramming-language7
python7
vulkan7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
iree-org/iree
Oct 2020 - Jun 2022
A retargetable MLIR-based machine learning compiler and runtime toolkit.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:59 reviews, 12 commits, 24 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Julian primarily focused on automating and improving the IREE project's build, testing, and deployment workflows. They implemented a standalone GitHub workflow for the IREE Dispatch Profiler, including scripting and artifact management. Additionally, the user contributed to correcting errors and updating project dependencies related to StableHLO, which included modifications to build configurations and bytecode module generation. These efforts showcase an emphasis on streamlining the project's build process and dependencies, and the user's contributions improved the overall testing and deployment aspects.
mlirspirvvulkantensorflowcompiler
julianwa/iree
Apr 2021 - Mar 2024
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Contributions:32 pushes, 10 branches, 3 issues in 2 years 11 months
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