Rickard Bäckman
Senior Principal Engineer at SambaNova Systems
Greater Stockholm Metropolitan Area Sweden
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Top SchoolRickard Bäckman is a Senior Principal Engineer with 17 years of experience building high-performance, low-latency systems and JVM internals from the Greater Stockholm area. He spent over a decade at Oracle working on HotSpot JIT compilers and implemented Java Flight Recorder, bringing production-grade profiling into the JVM. His background spans trading gateways, large-scale web systems and IP-telephony, with repeated emphasis on performance tuning, concurrency and test-driven development. Rickard contributes to the OpenJDK Loom project, digging into low-level fiber/continuation implementation details that influence Java’s concurrency model. Now at SambaNova Systems he applies deep systems and runtime expertise to accelerate cutting-edge infrastructure for compute-intensive workloads. Colleagues rely on him for hard-to-debug performance work and pragmatic architectural improvements that scale in production.
16 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at KTH Royal Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (7)
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Github contributions (5)
openjdk/loom
Aug 2019 - Apr 2022
https://openjdk.org/projects/loom
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 28 commits, 25 pushes in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Rickard's contributions primarily involve modifications to the Java Virtual Machine (JVM), specifically within the context of the "loom" project, which focuses on lightweight concurrency features (fibers). They are fixing naming conventions in the continuation related files, and also merging different changes related to the fiber implementation. The code changes suggest the user is deeply involved in the lower-level implementation of fibers.
openjdkjavajvmloom
swayamraina/loom
Aug 2018 - Apr 2019
Read-only mirror of https://hg.openjdk.java.net/loom/loom/
Contributions:30 commits in 7 months
openjdk-javaloomopenjdkjavajava-net
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