About

Andrew Lenharth is a Principal Engineer at SiFive, where he works as the technical lead for hardware languages and compilers, as well as related tooling and development flows. With over 13 years of relevant experience, Andrew is a compiler writer, OS hacker, graph and irregular algorithm developer, and parallel programmer. He is passionate about bringing FPGAs into the modern development environment by innovating on frameworks, languages, build, test, and programming models. Andrew is one of the leads of the circt project, an LLVM incubator for improving hardware tooling through compiler technology. He uses compilers and languages to develop a compiler infrastructure for high-level languages, verification, simulation, and more. Andrew is committed to working towards a better hardware design world through his work on the circt project. Prior to his current role at SiFive, Andrew worked as a Senior Hardware Engineer at Microsoft, where he developed languages, compilers, co-simulation systems, application frameworks, and programming models for FPGAs. He has also worked as a Lecturer at The University of Texas at Austin, where he taught classes on performance and parallel programming. His classes were some of the highest rated in the department during the semesters he taught. Andrew holds a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he studied from 2005 to 2011. He also holds a Bachelor of Engineering (BE) in Computer Engineering from the University of Washington, where he studied from 1997 to 2002. Andrew's tech stack includes test, Senior Software Engineer, and infra. He is a highly skilled and experienced professional who is committed to improving hardware tooling and development through his work on the circt project and at SiFive.