Kern Handa
AI Compiler Engineer at Modular
Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKern Handa is an AI compiler engineer with 14 years of experience building high-performance, cross-platform systems and compiler toolchains for both edge and datacenter targets. He has deep expertise in C++, build systems (CMake, SCons), MLIR/LLVM-based compiler development, and GPU/ARM code generation from work on projects like Accera, Halide, and LLM inference optimization at Microsoft. A pragmatic automation and build engineer, he has improved platform-agnostic builds and tooling across major open-source repos (including contributions to Microsoft’s GSL and the Embedded Learning Library). Based in Washington, he now focuses on unifying compilers and runtimes for heterogeneous compute at Modular, blending low-level systems engineering with higher-level DSL design. Notably, Kern’s background spans both rigorous test and release engineering at Xbox/IIS and advanced research compiler passes, giving him a rare combination of production hardening and cutting-edge performance tuning.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BS Biomedical Engineering, BS Biomedical Engineering at University of Minnesota
English
Github Skills (36)
algorithm10
git10
algorithms10
develop10
c-language10
python10
llvm10
guideline10
halide10
build-system10
coding-conventions10
cmake10
automation10
stl10
st10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
CppCon/CppCon2017
Sep 2017 - Oct 2019
Slides and other materials from CppCon 2017
Role in this project:
Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:132 commits, 1 PR, 52 pushes in 2 years
Contributions summary:Kern's primary contribution involved developing and maintaining a build and automation script for the CppCon 2017 repository. This includes creating a Python script to process presentation materials, generate an index of files, and facilitate the addition of new content with consistent formatting. They also focused on integrating and modifying the build process to be more robust. This suggests a focus on streamlining content management and ensuring consistent formatting and indexing for the repository.
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CppCon/CppCon2019
Sep 2019 - Sep 2020
Slides and other materials from CppCon 2019
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:146 commits, 1 PR, 24 pushes in 1 year
Contributions summary:Kern contributed to the CppCon 2019 repository by adding and modifying C++ code examples and tools. Their commits include adding materials for an algorithm demonstration, making changes to a Python script used for presentation management, and updating various index files. These modifications suggest a focus on providing and refining content related to C++ programming and associated tools for the conference.
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