Sean Stirling
Senior Software Engineer at Qualcomm
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSean Stirling is a Senior Software Engineer based in Edinburgh with a decade of experience specialising in C++, compilers and heterogeneous computing. He holds a First Class Master's in Informatics from the University of Edinburgh and is a published author on optimising compilers (F3M: Fast Focused Function Merging). Sean has driven low-level performance and portability work across industry teams, most recently joining Qualcomm after four years at Codeplay Software. He combines research-grade expertise with production engineering, focusing on making compiler transformations practical for real-world heterogeneous hardware. Colleagues value his ability to translate dense academic ideas into maintainable, high-performance code.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Informatics, First Class with Honours, Master's degree, Informatics, First Class with Honours at The University of Edinburgh
Github Skills (19)
staging10
intel10
llvm10
sycl10
oneapi10
blast6
sequence5
bioinformatics5
sequence-analysis5
sequence-alignment4
specification3
modular2
clang2
compiler-design2
compiler1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Seanst98/Physics-Engine
May 2018 - Jan 2019
Contributions:23 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
Seanst98/unified-runtime
Sep 2023 - Feb 2025
Contributions:54 pushes, 16 branches in 1 year 5 months
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