Tobias Hieta
Build And Toolchain Engineer at Larian Studios
Gävle, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolTobias Hieta is a build and toolchain engineer with 15 years of experience specializing in LLVM, CMake, FASTBuild and compiler toolchains for high-performance C++ applications. He has led build infrastructure and toolchain efforts at companies like Plex and Ubisoft, co-maintained internal LLVM/Clang toolchains for major game engines, and contributed as an LLVM release manager across multiple major releases. As a release manager and automation engineer on the upstream llvm-project he streamlined release workflows and adapted tooling to API changes, and has also contributed build and packaging improvements to widely used projects like Conan. He runs a consultancy helping organizations optimize compile-time performance and build systems, and recently joined Larian Studios while maintaining strong ties to the LLVM community. Outside of code, he co-founded and co-hosts Sweden’s largest developer podcast, blending technical expertise with community building. An often-overlooked strength is his history of shipping cross-platform ports and platform-specific optimizations (including console and macOS ports), showing practical systems-level impact beyond tooling.
15 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Nature Science microbiology, Nature Science microbiology at Katedralskolan
English, Swedish, Spanish
Github Skills (22)
git10
javascript10
c-language10
python10
cmake10
release-management10
automation10
front-end-development10
version-control10
automations10
package-manager10
cprogramming-language10
qt9
c119
build-system9
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
plexinc/plex-media-player
Oct 2015 - Dec 2016
Next generation Plex Desktop/Embedded Client
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:105 releases, 169 commits, 36 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Tobias primarily contributed to updating the web client component of the Plex Media Player. These updates involved modifying the web client version and hash, indicating a focus on integrating new web client builds. Additionally, the user addressed issues related to the display manager and window scaling, demonstrating involvement in both UI/UX and system-level integrations. Furthermore, the user removed unnecessary log statements, and corrected screen size, demonstrating work on both front and backend.
next-generationelectronplexdesktopembedded
llvm/llvm-project
Mar 2022 - Oct 2022
The LLVM Project is a collection of modular and reusable compiler and toolchain technologies.
Role in this project:Release Manager & Automation Engineer
Release Manager & Automation EngineerContributions:5 releases, 240 reviews, 16 commits in 7 months
Contributions summary:Tobias primarily focused on release management tasks, including preparing release notes for various LLVM components (Clang, LLVM, LLD, libcxx, pstl, and OpenMP) and setting the version to 20.0.0git. The contributions also include the addition of a script `merge-release-pr.py` to streamline the process of merging pull requests into release branches, along with enhancements to the `bump-version.py` script. Furthermore, the user made necessary adjustments to the `merge-release-pr.py` script to accommodate recent changes to GitHub's API for rebasing pull requests.
compilerstechnologiesclangsubmittoolchain
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