Christopher Arthur Lattner was born on 1978 and is an American software engineer, former Google and Tesla employee and co-founder of LLVM, Clang compiler, MLIR compiler infrastructure and the Swift programming language.
13 Facts About Chris Lattner
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Chris Lattner moved to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he was awarded a Master of Science degree in 2002, followed by a PhD in 2005 for research on optimizing pointer-intensive programs, supervised by Vikram Adve.
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Chris Lattner is the current CEO of Modular AI, a company that is building a next-generation Artificial Intelligence developer platform.
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Chris Lattner joined SiFive in January 2020 and the board changes to, Chris Lattner led the RISC-V Product and Engineering organizations.
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Chris Lattner served as the Senior Director and Distinguished Engineer, TensorFlow Infrastructure and Technologies at Google from August 2017 - January 2020.
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Chris Lattner served as the Vice President at Autopilot Software from January 30 - June 20,2017, he was primarily responsible for creating Swift, the programming language for building apps on Apple platforms and one of the fastest growing languages for doing so on Linux.
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Chris Lattner served as the Senior Director and Architect, Developer Tools Department from January 2013 - January 2017 where he took over the entire team, took the responsibilities of the Xcode IDE Instruments performance analysis tool, Apple Java releases, and a variety of internal tools.
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In 2005, Apple Inc hired Chris Lattner to begin work bringing LLVM to production quality for use in Apple products.
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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.
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Chris Lattner began developing the Swift programming language in 2010, with the eventual collaboration of many other programmers.
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Chris Lattner announced that the project lead role had been transferred to Ted Kremenek, and that Chris Lattner would leave Apple in January 2017.
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Chris Lattner is the co-founder of MLIR compiler infrastructure, a compiler that aims to address software fragmentation, improve compilation for heterogeneous hardware, significantly reduce the cost of building domain specific compilers, and aid in connecting existing compilers together.
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Chris Lattner is married to Tanya Chris Lattner, a co-founder, president and chief operating officer of the LLVM Foundation since 2015.