About

Matt Davis is a Senior Compiler Engineer at NVIDIA with over 9 years of relevant experience in software development, compilers, kernel hacking, debuggers, modeling, and simulation. He specializes in lower level architecture/kernel development, including compilers, memory management, kernel, and system software. His preferred languages of choice are C, C++, and x86 assembly, and he has experience with Go, BASH, LaTeX, Java, Haskell, Python, JavaScript, PostScript, and Perl. Matt has worked with various operating systems, including Linux (Arch, Slackware, Fedora, Red Hat EL, Debian) and FreeBSD. Matt's current company is NVIDIA, where he holds the position of Senior Compiler Engineer. His past experience includes working as a Software Engineer at Facebook, where he conducted LLVM research development investigating a compiler-driven static analysis. He also wrote a tool to analyze linker symbol lists and was involved in embedded/host programming targeting a prototype low earth orbit platform. At PlayStation, Matt worked as a Senior Software Compiler Engineer and was involved in compiler development (LLVM, open-source development) and machine code analysis tool development (llvm-mca, open-source development). Matt holds a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree from the University of Melbourne, where his focus was on Compiler Driven Memory Management. He also has a Master of Science degree in Modeling and Simulation from Old Dominion University and a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the same institution. Matt's tech stack includes experience as a Software Engineer, with expertise in JavaScript, Python, Java, and research science. He is a highly skilled and experienced engineer with a passion for developing and optimizing software and systems.