Timm Bäder
Software Engineer at Red Hat
Stuttgart Region Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolTimm Bäder is a software engineer with seven years of experience focused on compilers and systems software, based in the Stuttgart region. At Red Hat he improved NVIDIA driver packaging for RHEL and now works on Clang’s frontend in the LLVM project, currently implementing a new constexpr evaluator. His open-source contributions include substantive backend work on llvm-project’s bytecode interpreter and performance-driven refinements to GTK’s icon rendering and memory usage. He combines low-level correctness (fixing function-pointer semantics and fixed-point arithmetic) with pragmatic UX and packaging solutions for enterprise Linux. Timm’s background with a CS master from KIT and a BS from Universität Stuttgart underpins a methodical approach to complex language and tooling problems. Colleagues can expect a developer who bridges deep compiler internals with practical production deployment needs.
7 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer-Softwaretechnik, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer-Softwaretechnik at Universität StuttgartMaster of Science - MS, Informatik, Master of Science - MS, Informatik at Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
Github Skills (15)
c1710
gtk10
compiler-design10
interpretation10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
c1110
bytecode10
llvm10
fixed-point9
fixed-width9
performance-optimization9
fixed9
glsl5
opengl4
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
llvm/llvm-project
May 2022 - 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:330 reviews, 35 commits, 921 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Timm contributed to the LLVM project, specifically focusing on the bytecode interpreter. Their work involved fixing array initialization, handling function pointer operations, implementing complex arithmetic operators for fixed-point types, and supporting specific C++20 language features. The contributions also touched on handling various builtins, including memory manipulation functions.
compilerstechnologiesclangsubmittoolchain
GNOME/gtk
Oct 2018 - Mar 2020
Read-only mirror of https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:36 commits in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Timm primarily focused on improving the GTK library's icon theme functionality, implementing optimizations and fixing minor issues. Their work included refactoring code to avoid unnecessary string duplication and improve memory usage within the icon loading process. They also corrected documentation errors and refactored rendering code, caching textures to improve performance, and made some other minor adjustments. These changes showcase a focus on performance optimization and code quality.
pygobjectgnome-shell-extensiongtk-rsgnomegitlab
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