Przemyslaw Wirkus
Senior Manager at Arm
South Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolPrzemyslaw Wirkus is a Senior Manager and seasoned software engineer with 12 years of experience spanning embedded systems and large-scale, full life-cycle projects in the corporate and IoT domains. He blends hands-on compiler and toolchain expertise—having contributed ARM and AArch64 support and CPU features to the GCC project—with leadership in release management, QA automation, and performance engineering at Arm. A pragmatic advocate of Agile, Lean, code reviews and static/dynamic analysis, he routinely delivers process automation that scales from team-level workflows to organizational improvements. Comfortable across statically and dynamically typed languages, he focuses on clean, self-documenting code and engineering practices rather than dogmatic language choices. He pairs technical depth with people leadership, having led test automation teams and coached engineers across multiple companies. Outside work he is a self-taught Mandarin learner, reflecting a continuous-learning mindset that drives his professional development.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Computer Science, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Computer Science at The Silesian University of Technology
English, Polish, Chinese
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Github Skills (18)
c-language10
architecture10
computer-architecture10
compiler-development10
cpu-architecture10
gcc-compiler10
arch10
arm10
cprogramming-language10
architectures10
assembly9
assemble9
assembler9
sve9
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
gcc-mirror/gcc
Jun 2020 - Jul 2020
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Przemyslaw primarily contributed to the GCC compiler, focusing on the ARM and AArch64 architectures. Their work involved adding support for new Arm CPUs, including Cortex-X1, Cortex-A78, Cortex-A78AE, Cortex-A78C, Cortex-R52plus, Cortex-A510, Cortex-A710, and Cortex-X2. This included modifying configuration files, updating documentation, and adding new features like +flagm and +pauth to the -march option. Additionally, the user addressed a bug related to SVE vectorization.
ARMmbed/htrun
Feb 2015 - Jul 2016
Flash, reset and run host supervised tests on mbed platforms
Contributions:35 releases, 384 commits, 108 PRs in 1 year 5 months
supervisedhosttestingplatformsflash
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