Kim Barrett
Consulting Member Of Technical Staff at Oracle
Malden, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolKim Barrett is a seasoned software engineer with over 25 years of experience designing and implementing object-oriented languages, compilers, and runtime systems, currently serving as Consulting Member of Technical Staff at Oracle. A principal designer of the Dylan programming language and an important contributor to ANSI Common Lisp, Kim combines deep language design expertise with practical systems work across C, assembler, microcode, C++, Python, Java, and Lisp dialects. His career spans embedded systems, mobile robotics, and total system architecture, often collaborating closely with mechanical and electrical engineers on component design and debugging. Prior roles at iRobot, Apple, Harlequin, and MIT reflect a pattern of tackling low-level and high-level challenges across diverse processors and operating environments. Based in Malden, Massachusetts, he brings a rare blend of academic pedigree and hands-on engineering that makes language design informed by real-world hardware constraints. An understated strength is his ability to translate compiler and runtime theory into robust, fielded systems used in robotics and embedded products.
11 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Github Skills (17)
jvm10
java10
openjdk10
theia10
eclipse10
garbage-collector9
openj98
modular8
sdk7
toolchain7
clang7
llvm6
compiler5
jsr4
gm3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
kimbarrett/openjdk-jdk
Sep 2020 - Apr 2025
Read-only mirror of https://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk/jdk
Contributions:1361 pushes, 573 branches in 4 years 7 months
openjdk-javajdkopenjdkjavajava-net
kimbarrett/openjdk-jdk17
Jun 2021 - Aug 2021
JDK 17 development
Contributions:20 pushes, 8 branches in 1 month
jdk-17jdkjvmopenjdkjava
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