Timur Iskhodzhanov
Chief Executive Officer at Google
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolTimur Iskhodzhanov is a seasoned software engineer and executive with 16 years of experience building high-performance systems and leading teams at Google, now combining product leadership with a stealth automotive venture as CEO. He has deep systems and compiler expertise—contributions to Clang/LLVM, sanitizers, and Dr. Memory show a strong background in tooling, correctness, and low-level performance. As a long-time Android and Photos backup lead, he blends mobile engineering (notably performance optimizations and image-decoding work on Glide) with large-scale backend reliability. Timur routinely drives cost-saving performance improvements at scale and pairs hands-on coding with technical leadership. Based in Mountain View and trained at MIPT (PhD-level studies), he brings rare academic rigor to practical engineering problems. An interesting thread across his career is tackling edge cases—large-file image decoding, ABI mangling, and tricky sanitizer tests—where small fixes yield outsized impact.
15 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Mathematics Physics Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Mathematics Physics Computer Science at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) (MIPT)
Stackoverflow
16reputation
333reached
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Github Skills (26)
debugging10
error-reporting10
debug10
c-language10
wp-api10
compiler-development10
testing10
windows10
memory-management10
image-loading10
winapi10
c1110
addresssanitizer10
java10
c1710
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
google/sanitizers
Dec 2012 - Aug 2014
AddressSanitizer, ThreadSanitizer, MemorySanitizer
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:64 commits in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Timur primarily worked on improving the test suite for the sanitizers project. They addressed various issues, including fixing broken output tests, adjusting test expectations to account for output format changes, and updating stack error message expectations. Their contributions involved modifying existing test code, updating build scripts, and adding new tests, specifically for DLL functionality, to ensure comprehensive testing of the sanitizers.
dotnet
llvm-mirror/clang
Apr 2012 - Apr 2015
Mirror kept for legacy. Moved to https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:128 commits in 3 years
Contributions summary:Timur primarily contributed to the Clang compiler project by addressing bugs and implementing features related to the Microsoft C++ Application Binary Interface (ABI). Their work involved resolving incorrect mangling of anonymous namespaces, removing outdated fixes, and implementing aspects of vftable generation for the Microsoft ABI, thus improving compiler performance and compatibility with the Microsoft toolchain. Further contributions include the implementation of various methods for constructing the internal VTable structure used by the compiler. These changes have direct implications in how the compiler interacts with code built for Microsoft platforms.
keptwindowsllvmcc-plus-plus
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