Summary
Timothy Smith is a software engineer with nine years of focused experience in compiler development and low-level validation for high-performance computing and CPU architectures. He modernized and synchronized HPE/Cray’s Fortran and GPU toolchain with upstream LLVM, bringing a multi-year divergent codebase up-to-date and enabling the team to leverage community fixes and features. Prior to HPE he spent over a decade at Intel building validation tooling (Maestro) on LLVM, developing C++ and assembly tests, and uncovering critical hardware and firmware bugs during early silicon bring-up. He blends deep expertise in C++, x86 assembly, DWARF debugging, and compiler internals with a practical knack for customer-driven tooling and training. Based in Minneapolis, he combines systems-level rigor with hands-on Git and build-system problem solving that often resolves long-standing technical debt.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Engineering, B.S., Computer Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
German