Neal Gafter
Software Engineer at Facebook
Los Gatos, California, United States
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Top SchoolNeal Gafter is a veteran software engineer and programming language designer with over three decades of experience building compilers, language features, and large-scale systems. He contributed to C# and the Roslyn compilers at Microsoft, helped develop storage for Google Calendar, and now works at Meta on a Kotlin automatic-differentiation framework and a probabilistic programming language for Bayesian modeling. Neal blends deep academic credentials (MS/PhD in CS) with practical systems work dating back to Xerox and Sun, where he maintained C++ and Java compilers. Known for thinking like a language researcher and shipping production-quality implementations, he uniquely bridges theoretical language design and hands-on compiler engineering.
11 years of coding experience
32 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Engineering, B.S., Computer Engineering at Case Western Reserve UniversityM.S., Computer Science, M.S., Computer Science at University of Rochester
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (137)
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code-analysis10
language-design10
visual-studio10
fsharp10
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ecma10
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
JuliaServices/Rematch2.jl
Apr 2023 - Aug 2023
Pattern-matching for Julia
Contributions:3 releases, 66 reviews, 56 PRs in 4 months
starwayshi/roslyn1
Aug 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:2 commits in 2 months
roslyncompilersdotnetcompilervisual-basic
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