Summary
Marcos Varela is a computer architect with 11 years of experience, currently a Member of Technical Staff at AMD working on AI Engine core architecture and compiler support. He holds a PhD in Computer Engineering and has a strong research background in microarchitecture, SIMD optimizations, and performance analysis from his time at Universidade da Coruña and a visiting fellowship at Colorado State University. Marcos has a proven track record reverse-engineering and characterizing Intel KNL internals, building LLVM-based source-to-source compiler passes, and developing benchmarking toolkits that blend low-level assembly with higher-level tooling. At AMD he bridges architecture and compiler design across multiple generations, contributing to both compiler backends and new architecture design tasks. Based in A Coruña, Spain, he combines academic rigor with production-grade engineering and an uncommon depth in hardware-software co-design.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
PhD (international mention) Computer Engineering, PhD (international mention) Computer Engineering at Universidade da Coruña
Grado en Matemáticas Mathematics, Grado en Matemáticas Mathematics at Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia - U.N.E.D.
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Chalmers University of Technology
galego, english (c1), Spanish