Summary
Maxim Kuvyrkov is a Principal Tech Lead with 13 years focused on building and leading teams that create and maintain open-source compiler and runtime toolchains for Arm architectures. He began as a GNU Toolchain developer and progressed through CodeSourcery/Mentor and his own consultancy, giving him rare end-to-end experience in GCC, Clang, Glibc, GDB, Binutils and related projects. At Linaro he leads a world-class toolchain team, shaping both engineering direction and community collaboration across LLVM and GNU ecosystems. His hands-on background includes performance tuning (notably codegen and GLIBC optimizations) and porting multithreading support to niche architectures, reflecting a blend of deep systems expertise and practical product delivery. Based in Christchurch, New Zealand, he combines startup-level agility from founding KugelWorks with long-term stewardship of critical open-source infrastructure.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Lomonosov Moscow State University
English, Russian