Serge Pavlov
Leading Developer at Novosibirsk State University
Novosibirsk Oblast, Russia
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Top SchoolSerge Pavlov is a leading developer with 13 years of experience designing high-performance compilers and toolchains, currently based at Novosibirsk State University. He built a PHP-to-native compiler and Zend-compatible runtime on top of the LLVM/Clang framework, delivering dramatic memory savings (8–13x) and enhanced diagnostics for cloud applications. Previously at Intel he contributed to Fortran and OpenMP front-ends, debug information generation, and x86 backend optimizations, including team leadership on intrinsic optimizations. His open-source work on LLVM/Clang includes deep fixes in C/C++ parsing, template instantiation, floating-point handling and AArch64 FPCR intrinsics, reflecting low-level expertise across front-end parsing and code generation. With a PhD in Physical Chemistry, Serge blends rigorous research thinking with decades of systems-level engineering, often surfacing subtle compiler and runtime issues few generalists detect.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Physical Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Physical Chemistry at Novosibirsk State University (NSU)
Русский, English, Italian, French, Spanish
Github Skills (17)
c-language10
float3210
compiler-development10
llvm10
c1110
c1710
compiler-design10
floating-point10
clangd10
cprogramming-language10
clang10
template-metaprogramming9
parsing9
code-generation9
text-parsing9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
llvm-mirror/clang
May 2013 - Oct 2019
Mirror kept for legacy. Moved to https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:129 commits in 6 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Serge primarily contributed to the Clang compiler, focusing on the C and C++ front-end. The commits involve bug fixes, such as addressing a crash related to template metaprogramming, and improvements to error recovery. The user's changes demonstrate proficiency in understanding and modifying the compiler's internal structures, including the handling of declaration specifiers and template instantiation. The contributions reflect expertise in parsing and code generation for the C and C++ languages.
keptwindowsllvmcc-plus-plus
llvm/llvm-project
Jan 2023 - Jan 2023
The LLVM Project is a collection of modular and reusable compiler and toolchain technologies.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:66 reviews, 2 commits, 69 PRs in 4 days
Contributions summary:Serge primarily contributed to the LLVM compiler project by modifying the clang frontend. They addressed issues related to floating-point optimizations, specifically the handling of the `optnone` attribute and its impact on FPContract. The user added functionality to the parser and Sema to ensure that floating-point features are correctly set before function body parsing and also to handle the new bitcode extensions. The user also worked on AArch64 code generation including intrinsics for getting, setting, and resetting the floating-point mode (FPCR).
compilerstechnologiesclangsubmittoolchain
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