Mark Schimmel
R&D Engineer, Senior Staff at Synopsys
Felton, California, United States
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Top SchoolMark Schimmel is a senior R&D compiler engineer with over three decades of hands-on experience building C/C++ and Ada compilers, optimizers, and embedded-code generation for processors including ARC, PowerPC, MIPS, and DSPs. Currently at Synopsys he drives Clang/LLVM backends and auto-vectorization for ARC64 and multiple DSP targets, after leading optimization and codegen work at Wind River, Borland, and other toolmakers. His background spans low-level emulation, JTAG debugger integration, and feature work across commercial compilers—skills that surface in production-grade embedded toolchains. Based in Felton, California, he combines deep systems knowledge with practical delivery for constrained targets, and is a long-time practitioner rather than a manager, still coding compiler backends himself. An understated strength is his continuity across generations of embedded processors, giving him rare institutional memory about ABI, codegen tradeoffs, and real-world embedded constraints.
5 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services at Biola UniversityUniversity of California, Irvine
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Github contributions (4)
llvm/llvm-project
Jul 2021 - Nov 2022
The LLVM Project is a collection of modular and reusable compiler and toolchain technologies.
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 comment, 2 issues in 1 year 4 months
compilerllvmtoolchain
chapuni/llvm-project-legacy
Oct 2020 - Oct 2021
Contributions:6 commits in 11 months
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