Summary
Vyacheslav Levytskyy is a Senior Principal Software Engineer and seasoned compiler specialist with over 25 years of experience building scalable, data-intensive systems and language toolchains. Currently an LLVM developer and maintainer of the SPIR‑V backend, he has led production compiler and runtime work at Intel and Photonic and presented at the LLVM Developers’ Meeting. His background spans C++, Python, Erlang/BEAM and distributed architectures, with hands-on delivery of petabyte-scale data processing, a cloud event‑store/streaming engine, and a large-scale discrete event simulator. He combines deep academic training (PhD in Computer Software) with entrepreneurial experience as a founder and consultant, translating stakeholder ideas into roadmaps and shipped products. A less obvious strength is his sustained ability to move between low-level compiler internals and high-level distributed system design, making him equally effective in language translation, runtime performance, and operational scalability.
4 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Computer Software, Ph.D., Computer Software at Institute of modelling problems of the power engineering NAS Ukraine
Diploma of Higher Education (honours), Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Diploma of Higher Education (honours), Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Žitomirs'kij Inženerno-tehnologicnij Institut
English, Italian, Polish, Ukrainian, Russian