Mikhail Gudim
Senior Staff Engineer at Qualcomm
East Gwillimbury, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolMikhail Gudim is a Senior Staff Engineer with 11 years of experience building compilers and performant systems, currently based in East Gwillimbury, Ontario and working at Qualcomm. He has deep compiler expertise from roles at Ventana Micro Systems, Cerebras, and Huawei, and his PhD-level mathematics background from the University of Toronto informs a rigorous, research-driven approach to optimization and analysis. Mikhail contributes to the widely used LLVM project—extending ReachingDefAnalysis to support stack objects and improving code quality—highlighting hands-on impact in open-source compiler infrastructure. Colleagues rely on him for clean refactors and subtle correctness fixes that unlock downstream performance gains, and he brings a rare blend of theoretical depth and production engineering experience to complex code generation challenges.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Mathematics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Mathematics at University of Toronto
English, Russian
Github Skills (9)
compiler-optimization10
code-generation10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
llvm10
algorithms8
data-structures8
data-structure8
machine-code7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
llvm/llvm-project
Jun 2023 - Jun 2026
The LLVM Project is a collection of modular and reusable compiler and toolchain technologies.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:247 reviews, 104 PRs, 46 pushes in 3 years
Contributions summary:Mikhail primarily contributed to the `ReachingDefAnalysis` module, which is part of the LLVM compiler infrastructure. Their work involved fixing typos and renaming variables within this analysis component. Furthermore, the user extended the analysis to support stack objects and refactored code to use a more appropriate data type. The contributions suggest a focus on compiler optimization and code generation within the LLVM project.
compilerllvmtoolchain
mgudim/llvm-project
Sep 2023 - Jun 2026
The LLVM Project is a collection of modular and reusable compiler and toolchain technologies.
Contributions:4 PRs, 423 pushes, 101 branches in 2 years 10 months
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