Kavan Bickerstaff
Senior Compiler Engineer at Flow Computing
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolKavan Bickerstaff is a Senior Compiler Engineer based in London with 10 years of experience building high-performance systems across compiler toolchains, GPU profiling, and autonomy stacks. A co-founder of Cybergram, he helped create the world’s first diagram digitization platform, blending product vision with hands-on C++ and computer vision expertise. His recent roles at XMOS and Flow Computing focus on compiler and toolchain engineering, translating low-level hardware constraints into efficient, production-ready software. Kavan combines academic rigor from an MSci in Computing Science (First Class) with startup grit, moving between research-grade prototypes and large-scale systems. Less obvious: he pairs deep performance engineering with practical UX-minded product work, enabling tools that are both fast and usable.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
MSci, Computing Science, First Class Honours, MSci, Computing Science, First Class Honours at The University of Glasgow
Github Skills (37)
modular10
llvm10
toolchain10
compiler10
clang10
reflection9
elf8
debug8
debugging8
entity8
game-programming8
dwarf8
minetest7
game-dev7
trinitycore7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
KB9/VDB
Dec 2016 - Mar 2019
A visual debugger (VDB) which uses Qt and the DWARF debugging format to debug ELF executables.
Contributions:172 commits, 1 PR, 86 pushes in 2 years 3 months
dwarfexecutableselfdebuggingdebug
bmanga/GameEngine
Jan 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:59 commits, 44 pushes in 4 months
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