Ten Tzen
Sammamish, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTen Tzen is a veteran compiler architect with decades of experience building teams and shipping high-performance code generators across x86, x64, Itanium, Arm32 and Arm64 platforms. As a Principal Software Architect at Microsoft he led Itanium compiler design, revived and advanced Profile-Guided Optimization and sampling PGO, and delivered multi‑percent performance gains across major apps and cloud services while reducing working set and operational costs. He pioneered Arm64 bring-up for Windows, co-invented hybrid Arm64+x86 binaries, and drove innovations in incremental compilation, debuggability and compiler-driven security and obfuscation. His work spans low-level CPU/memory optimizations, VLIW and parallelizing compilers, and graph compiler ideas for AI/ML DLA, reflecting both deep research roots (PhD-level) and sustained impact on production platforms. An understated strength is turning compiler research into cloud-scale savings and measurable benchmark improvements for partners including Xbox, Azure and large ISVs.
8 years of coding experience
32 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Michigan State University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (13)
compiler10
modular10
clang10
llvm10
toolchain10
cling4
optimizer3
optimization3
llvm-ir3
bazel2
azure2
static-analysis2
cpp2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
tentzen/llvm-project
Feb 2020 - May 2020
LLVM Compiler, Optimizer and Toolset projects for Azure
Contributions:18 commits, 11 pushes, 6 branches in 3 months
compilersbazeloptimizationcompileroptimizer
llvm/llvm-project
May 2020 - Jun 2024
The LLVM Project is a collection of modular and reusable compiler and toolchain technologies.
Contributions:7 pushes, 3 comments in 4 years 1 month
compilerstechnologiesclangsubmittoolchain
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