Timothy Creech
Compiler Engineer at Intel Corporation
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
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Top SchoolTimothy Creech is a compiler engineer with a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and over a decade of experience building compilers, toolchains, and HPC runtimes across NASA and Intel. He currently contributes to LLVM, enhancing sampling profilers and tooling like llvm-profgen to improve profiling fidelity and build reliability for performance-critical toolchains. His background spans research-driven auto-parallelizing compilers for space multiprocessors to production compiler engineering for next-generation HPC platforms, blending deep systems research with pragmatic engineering. Known for attention to low-level detail, he has also worked on binary-only update tools and malware analysis, giving him a rare mix of performance, security, and reverse-engineering experience. Based in the Washington DC–Baltimore area, he brings a research pedigree and practical track record of shipping compiler features used by large-scale toolchains.
4 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Maryland, College Park
Github Skills (14)
compiler-optimization10
performance-analytics10
performance-monitor10
performance-analysis10
cmake10
performance-monitoring10
cprogramming-language10
c-language10
code-profiling10
profiling10
llvm10
debug9
build-system9
debugging9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
llvm/llvm-project
Mar 2024 - Jan 2025
The LLVM Project is a collection of modular and reusable compiler and toolchain technologies.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:14 reviews, 7 PRs, 23 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Timothy focused on improving the LLVM compiler toolchain, specifically improving the sampling profiler. Their contributions included adding compiler flags to enhance debug information for profiling, recommending specific performance events, and modifying the documentation to reflect best practices for using sample profilers. The user also worked on improving the build process of the libclc library and added support for creating profiles of arbitrary events within the llvm-profgen tool. Further, they reverted some changes and added llvm-profgen to the list of toolchain tools.
compilerstechnologiesclangsubmittoolchain
tcreech-intel/llvm-project
Mar 2024 - Mar 2025
The LLVM Project is a collection of modular and reusable compiler and toolchain technologies.
Contributions:1 PR, 21 pushes, 11 branches in 1 year
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