Steve Walk
Engineer, Senior Staff at Qualcomm
Palos Hills, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteve Walk is a Senior Staff Engineer with nearly four decades of experience building production-quality C/C++ compilers and toolchains for telecommunications, automotive, and embedded processors. He has hands-on expertise across the entire compiler lifecycle—code generation, optimization, JITs, schedulers and CI-driven testing—most recently contributing LLVM support for Qualcomm’s HEXAGON and previously architecting a JSON-based toolchain for a reconfigurable processor. Known for solving thorny performance and correctness problems, he has a track record of shipping new targets and test suites for safety- and performance-sensitive platforms like Cavium ThunderX and DIAB. Based in Palos Hills, Illinois, he pairs deep low-level debugging (including Chisel/Scala/Verilog waveform work) with practical customer focus, making him as comfortable in RTL traces as in LLVM IR.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at Illinois Institute of Technology
Github Skills (48)
hacklang10
virtual-machine10
interpreter10
hhvm10
php10
apl9
ocaml9
gleam9
idris9
compiler-design9
dub9
ppx8
lwt8
mercurial8
version-control8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
swalk-cavium/hhvm
Nov 2016 - Dec 2018
A virtual machine designed for executing programs written in Hack and PHP.
Contributions:123 pushes, 54 branches in 2 years 1 month
phpprogramsvirtual-machine
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