Sol Swords
Principal Engineer at Arm
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSol Swords is a Principal Engineer with 18 years of deep expertise in datapath formal verification, currently at Arm after senior roles at Intel and Centaur Technology. He specializes in specifying, debugging, and proving functional correctness of floating-point and media instructions for highly optimized x86 RTL, including full end-to-end proofs for challenging operations like divide and square root that outperformed commercial tools. An active leader in the ACL2 community—program co-chair of the 2023 ACL2 workshop and author of widely used ACL2 libraries—he both builds and evangelizes open-source theorem-proving infrastructure. Based in Austin, he pairs rigorous Ph.D.-level research with hands-on engineering, and outside work pursues violin performance and sourdough baking, reflecting a precise, craft-oriented approach to problem solving.
18 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
Github Skills (17)
proof-assistant10
formal-methods10
rewriting10
sat-solver10
formal-verification10
coq10
common-lisp10
theorem-proving10
first-order-logic10
logic10
electrical-engineering9
ccl7
lisp5
compiler3
mojolicious3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
intel-staging/acl2
May 2022 - Oct 2024
ACL2 System and Books as Maintained by the Community
Contributions:188 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 5 months
acl2
solswords/acl2
Aug 2015 - Apr 2025
ACL2 System and Books as Maintained by the Community
Contributions:58 pushes, 26 branches in 9 years 9 months
statelessstashacl2lists
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