14 Facts About Chris Lattner

Christopher Arthur Lattner was born on 1978 and is an American software engineer and creator of LLVM, the Clang compiler, the Swift programming language and the MLIR compiler infrastructure.

Between 2017 and 2022, Chris Lattner worked in various positions for Tesla, Google and SiFive.

Chris Lattner is currently co-founder and CEO of Modular AI, a company building an artificial intelligence developer platform.

Chris Lattner studied computer science at the University of Portland, graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in 2000.

At Apple, Chris Lattner was primarily responsible for building a new compiler infrastructure based around LLVM and creating the Swift programming language for building apps on Apple platforms.

Chris Lattner served as the Senior Director and Architect, Developer Tools Department from January 2013 to January 2017 leading the Xcode, Instruments, and compiler teams.

In 2005, Apple Inc hired Chris Lattner to begin work bringing LLVM to production quality for use in Apple products.

Over time, Chris Lattner built out the technology, personally implementing many major new features in LLVM, formed and built a team of LLVM developers at Apple, started the Clang project, took responsibility for evolving Objective-C, and nurtured the open source community.

Chris Lattner began developing the Swift programming language in 2010, with the eventual collaboration of many other programmers.

Chris Lattner announced that the project lead role had been transferred to Ted Kremenek, and that Chris Lattner would leave Apple in January 2017.

At Tesla, Chris Lattner served as the Vice President at Autopilot Software from January 30 to June 20,2017, where he worked on transitioning Autopilot hardware.

Chris Lattner served as the Senior Director and Distinguished Engineer, TensorFlow Infrastructure and Technologies at Google from August 2017 to January 2020.

Chris Lattner joined SiFive in January 2020 as the President of Platform Engineering, leading the RISC-V Product and Engineering organizations.

Chris Lattner is married to Tanya Chris Lattner, who co-founded the LLVM Foundation with him in 2015 and has been its president and COO ever since.