Zoe Carver
Senior AI Compiler Engineer at Tenstorrent
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolZoe Carver is a Senior AI Compiler Engineer with a decade of experience building and shipping language and systems-level features at scale, currently driving compiler work at Tenstorrent after a high-impact tenure on Apple's Swift and Clang teams. She led Swift/C++ interoperability efforts that were showcased at WWDC23, is a libc++ code-owner who implemented many C++ standard papers including C++20 ranges, and has contributed cross-cutting work from AST generation to memory ownership and security-focused platform integrations. Comfortable from firmware to UI frameworks, Zoe combines hands-on implementation of standards and optimizations with team leadership—planning work, assigning tasks, and communicating progress to senior management. An active open-source contributor, her changes to Swift, SwiftSyntax, and libc++ have materially improved parsing, compilation, and constexpr container APIs, reflecting a rare blend of compiler internals expertise and practical product impact.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma Computer Science, High School Diploma Computer Science at Seattle Academy
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Github Skills (39)
unit-testing10
cpp-library10
algorithms10
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Github contributions (5)
swiftlang/swift
Jun 2022 - Jan 2023
The Swift Programming Language
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Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1102 reviews, 143 commits, 686 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Zoe contributed to the development of the Swift programming language, focusing on enhancing the AST (Abstract Syntax Tree) generation capabilities. Their work involved implementing infrastructure for ASTGen, including adding support for struct/class declarations, adding visitors for a range of syntax nodes like closures, and implementing features like array expressions and labelled tuples. These changes improved the language's parsing and compilation process, which impacted developers working with the Swift language.
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swiftlang/swift-syntax
Aug 2022 - Sep 2022
A set of Swift libraries for parsing, inspecting, generating, and transforming Swift source code.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 reviews, 11 commits, 4 PRs in 12 days
Contributions summary:Zoe focused on adding and improving features within the Swift-Syntax library. Their contributions include implementing methods for visiting various syntax nodes, which are essential for parsing and manipulating Swift code. They also addressed review comments, refining the code and improving its overall quality. The work demonstrates a strong understanding of the library's internal structure and the Swift language's syntax.
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