Vidar Holen
ML Compiler Engineer at Apple
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVidar Holen is an ML compiler engineer with 13 years of experience building production-grade systems across major tech firms, now working at Apple after multi-year tenures at Google and Meta (Facebook). His background spans NLP research, distributed computing, and JavaScript VM compiler engineering, giving him a rare mix of language/runtime internals and large-scale system design. Vidar’s career shows a steady progression from systems development roles in Norway to leading-edge ML infrastructure and compiler work in Silicon Valley. Based in San Jose, he combines deep academic foundations from NTNU with hands-on experience optimizing compilers and distributed ML workloads for real-world product constraints.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Github Skills (124)
bash10
cryptocurrency10
linter10
haskell10
launcher10
static-analysis10
shell10
developer-tools10
bitcoin10
shellcheck10
filesystem10
cryptography10
hook9
ncurses9
file-search9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
koalaman/shellcheck
Nov 2012 - Dec 2022
ShellCheck, a static analysis tool for shell scripts
Contributions:27 releases, 16 reviews, 1475 commits in 10 years 3 months
linterhaskellshell-scriptsdeveloper-toolsbash
koalaman/shellcheck-precommit
Aug 2021 - Dec 2022
Pre-commit hook for ShellCheck
Contributions:22 commits, 2 PRs, 8 pushes in 1 year 3 months
pre-commit-hookpre-commitshellcheckcommithook
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