Rob Springer
Agoura Hills, California, United States
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RockstarRob Springer is a backend and compiler engineer with seven years of experience focused on performance optimization and low-level systems design. Based in Agoura Hills, California, he has contributed meaningfully to Google's XLS project by redesigning argument passing, improving memory management, and enhancing a JIT to accelerate hardware synthesis workflows. He excels at translating high-level DSL constructs into efficient low-level IR and adding operations that tighten bitwise logic, array handling, and constant translation. Comfortable in production environments, Rob brings a practical engineering mindset paired with a curiosity for tooling—his GitHub bio amusingly notes he’s a "walking rubber duck," hinting at a collaborative, problem-solving approach.
6 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (15)
compiler-design10
c-language10
interpretation10
cprogramming-language10
bytecode10
llvm10
optimization9
optmization9
performance-optimization9
optimisation9
datastructures-algorithms8
algorithms8
data-structures8
algorithm8
data-structure8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
google/xls
May 2020 - Jan 2023
XLS: Accelerated HW Synthesis
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Compiler Engineer
Back-end Developer & Compiler EngineerContributions:19 reviews, 414 commits, 6 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Rob focused on optimizing and enhancing the XLS compiler's low-level IR representation by redesigning argument passing and memory management. The primary contributions involved refactoring the IR JIT for improved performance, implementing new operations to convert DSLX into low-level IR (including bitwise logic, array creation and indexing) and improving its ability to translate constant definitions. The changes demonstrate a focus on performance optimization, and the development of a more performant JIT, and expanding the tool's capabilities in translating data to IR.
high-level-synthesisxlsacceleratedsynthesiscompiler
RobSpringer/enkit
Jul 2024 - Nov 2024
Toolkit for lean builds and team management.
Contributions:9 pushes, 3 branches in 4 months
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