Paul Mchugh
Senior Compiler Engineer at Qualcomm
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Mchugh is a Senior Compiler Engineer based in San Diego with eight years of professional experience building compiler and systems software. After earning a BS in Computer Science from California State University, Sacramento, he contributed as a research assistant to a compiler optimization project and is an author on an upcoming paper, demonstrating a strong research-to-production trajectory. At Qualcomm he progressed from Compiler Engineer to Senior Compiler Engineer, focusing on LLVM and GPU compilation toolchains. He combines hands-on optimization work with pragmatic engineering, shipping features in performance-sensitive environments. Open to roles across systems software, he brings both academic rigor and industry-grade delivery, with a knack for turning compiler research into practical compiler passes and runtime improvements.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
California State University, Sacramento
Github Skills (5)
scheduler6
fortran5
scheduling4
compiler3
llvm3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
paul-mchugh/OptSched
Feb 2020 - Jul 2021
Optimizing scheduler. Combinatorial instruction scheduling project.
Contributions:4 PRs, 108 pushes, 34 branches in 1 year 5 months
schedulingschedulercombinatorialinstructionoptimizing
paul-mchugh/StellarisSaveEditor
Feb 2018 - Aug 2018
Contributions:23 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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