Nicola Zaghen
Senior AI GPU Compiler Engineer at AMD
Watford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolNicola Zaghen is a Senior AI GPU Compiler Engineer with 13 years of experience building and optimizing GPU compilers and toolchains across industry leaders. He has progressed from graduate roles at Imagination Technologies—where he developed OpenCL compiler optimizations and CI systems—to senior compiler positions at Huawei and Innosilicon, and now contributes to AMD’s Triton GPU compiler. His expertise spans LLVM backend work, Clang frontend modifications, performance-focused C++ (C++11), Python and low-level systems programming for AI accelerators. Nicola combines deep compiler theory with hands-on production engineering, routinely shipping optimization passes and automated testing infrastructure. Based in Watford, he brings a research-informed approach from a strong academic grounding (MSc in Computer Science) and early experience in automated planning at NASA Ames. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who translates complex hardware constraints into reliable compiler solutions.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Computer Science, Master of Science (MS) Computer Science at Università degli Studi di BresciaITIS Cossali
Italian, English
Github Skills (31)
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llvm10
toolchain10
compiler10
assembly9
evm9
blockchain9
ethereum9
cpp8
refactoring8
swift8
git-mirror8
static-analyzer8
linker8
objective-c8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
nzaghen/llvm-project
Jul 2025 - Jul 2025
The LLVM Project is a collection of modular and reusable compiler and toolchain technologies.
Contributions:1 push, 2 branches in 1 day
pbertoni89/whereami
May 2013 - Jun 2013
Contributions:35 commits in 1 month
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