Shafik Yaghmour
Compiler Engineer at Intel Corporation
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolShafik Yaghmour is a compiler engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with over twenty years of professional software development and roughly fifteen years focused on C++ across finance and tech. He contributes actively to clang/LLVM and triages many C++ bugs in the LLVM community while authoring code that improves debugging and AST import behavior for projects like LLDB and clang. A prolific community contributor, he is in the top 0.08% of Stack Overflow users for C/C++ and has published nearly 300 weekly C++ quizzes that engage and educate the language community. His work on undefined behavior and type-punning is regarded as a modern reference, and he has authored multiple WG21 proposals and participates in the C++ Core Working Group. At companies including Intel and Apple he’s delivered hard-core backend and compiler features that bridge language semantics and toolchain implementation. Colleagues describe him as someone who pairs deep compiler internals expertise with a knack for turning subtle language issues into practical tooling and standards improvements.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
MS, MS at Polytechnic UniversityNew York UniversityMS, MS at New York University - Polytechnic School of EngineeringNYC Shaolin centerBrooklyn Tech
Stackoverflow
156,446reputation
12.1mreached
1,674answers
24questions
variadic-functions
top-1%
type-conversion
top-5%
grammar
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floating-point
top-1%
gcc
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rounding
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Github Skills (93)
undefined-behavior10
abstract-syntax-tree10
c1110
gcc10
boolean10
printf10
c1710
visual-studio10
cplus10
floating-point10
cpp10
clang10
optimization10
constructor10
lldb10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
apple/swift-lldb
Aug 2018 - Oct 2019
This is the version of LLDB that supports the Swift programming language & REPL.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:35 commits, 24 PRs, 16 pushes in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Shafik primarily contributed to the LLDB debugger's data formatters, focusing on C++17 features. Their work involved implementing formatters for `std::variant`, `std::u16string`, and `std::u32string`, enhancing the debugger's ability to display complex C++ data structures. They also refactored the std::function formatter and added support to step into the callable wrapped by libc++ std::function, and fixed ambiguous lookups in expressions. These contributions improved the debugging experience for users working with modern C++ code.
lldbswift-programming-languagereplswift-programmingswift
llvm-mirror/lldb
Sep 2018 - Oct 2019
Project moved to: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:36 commits in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Shafik primarily contributed to the LLDB debugger project through bug fixes and enhancements related to C++ language features. They addressed issues in std::function and std::atomic formatters, and improved the handling of class template specializations and anonymous enums within the debugger. Additionally, the user added tests to cover the correct import of SourceLocation and other expression command functionalities.
llvm
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