Tom Hildebrandt
Mercer Island, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolTom Hildebrandt is a seasoned systems and language engineer with 11+ years of industry experience and a PhD in Computer Engineering, specializing in compiler front-ends, optimization, runtime libraries, and parallel language design. He has led language and compiler work at Cray (Chapel) and Synopsys, improving optimizations, callgraph analysis for dynamic languages, and cross-platform portability while also designing processor instruction sets and runtime support earlier in his career. Practical and detail-oriented, he has a track record of shipping robust tooling—from a zero-issue installer used for years to rewritten CSE/CVP passes in a production compiler—and enjoys tackling memory management and performance at both software and ISA levels. Based on Mercer Island, he is focused on advancing languages that fuse algorithmic and dataflow models for parallel computation and brings rare hands-on experience in both microarchitecture evaluation and high-level language design.
11 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computer Engineering, PhD Computer Engineering at North Carolina State UniversityBS Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, BS Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of Colorado Boulder
English, Japanese, German, Spanish, Russian
Github Skills (18)
programming-language10
parallel10
open-source10
hpc10
distributed-computing10
parallel-computing10
gpu10
compiler10
wolfram-language10
scientific-computing10
concurrency10
mojo10
chapel9
language-design9
apl1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
hildeth/free
Feb 2015 - Jun 2023
Contributions:13 pushes in 8 years 5 months
hildeth/chapel
Jan 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:249 pushes, 245 branches in 1 year
parallelproductivecompilerparallel-programmingprogramming-language
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