Rithik Sharma

California, United States

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Rithik Sharma is a PhD candidate in Computer Science at UC Santa Cruz specializing in heterogeneous compilers, LLVM, and programming languages research, with seven years of practical experience across academia and industry. He has twice been selected for Google Summer of Code with the LLVM Foundation, contributed to the Clang static analyzer and loop-safety tooling, and has interned on Intel’s GPU compiler improving performance, reliability, and security for recent Arc GPUs. His background includes a collaborative bachelor’s thesis with Universität des Saarlandes and hands-on work building an LLVM backend and Rust frontend for embedded targets at HighTec. As a graduate teaching assistant for multiple compiler and PL courses, he pairs research with mentoring and course delivery. Rithik’s profile blends deep compiler toolchain expertise with real-world GPU compiler engineering, making him a strong collaborator for PL and compiler-focused research projects.

8 years of coding experience

1 year of employment as a software developer

Bachelor's degree, Informatik, Bachelor's degree, Informatik at Universität des Saarlandes

University of California Santa Cruz

High school, Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics, High school, Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics at St. francis inter college

Summer School, Programming languages implementation, Summer School, Programming languages implementation at PLISS - Programming Languages Implementation Summer School

Summer School, Programming Languages Research, Summer School, Programming Languages Research at OPLSS - Oregon Programming Language Summer School

Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science and Engineering, A, Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science and Engineering, A at Lovely Professional University

Github Skills (33)

llvm10

toolchain10

compiler10

procedure10

cpp9

placement8

algorithms8

animation7

llm-inference7

vector-graphics7

gtkmm7

data-structures7

vector6

sparse6

java6

Programming languages (6)

C++LLVMJavaScriptASP.NETHTMLPython

Github contributions (5)

SharmaRithik/llvm-project

Jul 2021 - Jul 2026

The LLVM Project is a collection of modular and reusable compiler and toolchain technologies. Note: the repository does not accept github pull requests at this moment. Please submit your patches at http://reviews.llvm.org.

Contributions:34 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 1 month

compilerllvmtoolchain

SharmaRithik/rithiksharma

Oct 2020 - May 2026

Contributions:27 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 8 months

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