Max Winkler
Senior Software Engineer at Blizzard Entertainment
Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolMax Winkler is a Senior Software Engineer with five years of professional experience building core systems and tooling for AAA game engines and compiler toolchains. Based in Nanaimo, BC, he has driven low-level platform, concurrency, and memory-engineering work at Blizzard and Electronic Arts’ Frostbite team, and previously contributed to OS-level projects during internships. An active contributor to the high-profile LLVM project, he focuses on Clang/clang-cl driver improvements, MSVC ABI corner cases, vtable initialization fixes, and name mangling/NTTP demangling — showing a deep fluency in compiler internals and ABI interoperability. Max combines practical production delivery in game core technology with open-source compiler engineering, a blend that surfaces in debugging subtle codegen and driver issues that often elude higher-level engineers.
5 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at University of Waterloo
English
Github Skills (7)
code-generation10
c-language10
compiler-design10
clangd10
cprogramming-language10
clang10
llvm10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
llvm/llvm-project
Oct 2023 - Sep 2025
The LLVM Project is a collection of modular and reusable compiler and toolchain technologies.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Compiler Engineer
Back-end Developer & Compiler EngineerContributions:41 reviews, 49 PRs, 18 pushes in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Max primarily contributes to the LLVM project by addressing code generation issues and driver-related problems within the Clang compiler. Their work includes fixing code generation issues related to vtable initialization and MSVC ABI, specifically for classes with deleted copy assignment operators. They also work on improving the clang-cl driver by adding support for new MSVC options and ensuring default settings align with the MSVC environment, such as disabling strict aliasing by default. Further, they tackle problems with name mangling, for example, MSVC demangling for auto NTTP and placeholder return types.
compilerllvmtoolchain
MaxEW707/llvm-project
Oct 2023 - Jan 2025
The LLVM Project is a collection of modular and reusable compiler and toolchain technologies.
Contributions:118 pushes, 55 branches in 1 year 2 months
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