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Kevin Gleason.

Language Designer. Compiler Engineer. Security Enthusiast.

I'm a Software Engineer specializing in Compiler Front-Ends, IR design, and Static Analysis. Currently a Staff Eng @ Google working on XLA & StableHLO for both OpenXLA and Cloud TPU users, ensuring great usability & performance, compiler simplicity, and success of ML frameworks targeting OpenXLA backends.

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Currently, I’m a ML Compiler Engineer at Google. I lead the StableHLO team, providing an OSS unified opset for AI/ML frameworks and compilers.

In my free time, I enjoy keeping up with security trends, repairing tech, and I am a coach for Northeastern University Women’s Club Soccer - Go Huskies!

Language Skills

Language Design
Compiler Front-Ends
Static Analysis
IR Transformation

Tech Stack

C / C++
XLA:TPU / StableHLO
JAX / TorchTPU
Go / Python / F#

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Experience.

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Compiler Front-End, Engineer III

@MathWorks

2016 - 2022

Language Design
AST Transformations
Security / IP Protection
Management / Leadership

Analyzed customer pain points regarding functions in MATLAB and proposed language design direction to enable more users to complete function authoring and higher-order function workflows.
On core design teams for MATLAB language features: Function Argument Validation, Hex and Binary Literals, Name=Value Syntax.
Designed & led UX tests to craft data-driven designs.

Prototyped language proposals using AST Transformations: For-each loops, function decorators, template literals, and more.
Created and maintained Static Analysis Toolkit; Used to assess compatibility impact of design choices, and analyze usage patterns to propose enhancements.
Lead dev for Function Argument Validation feature; AST transformations to provide interface-boundary dynamic type checking.

Part of design team for IP Protected code files to provide means of protecting IP in shared code files; Performed common DLL analysis techniques to qualify design security and implementation.
Reverse engineered Secure MATLAB archives using static and dynamic methods, including Ghidra, API Monitor, gdb, and linux kernel traces; Provided write up to demonstrate attack vectors.

Supported many cross-functional projects: Modified Condition/Decision Coverage report generation, AST-based MATLAB to C++ Code Generation, WebAssembly Compilation for MATLAB Online.
Mentor to several new hires in internal rotational program; Speaker at MathWorks Compiler Training to teach about execution pipeline and introduce the language department.

@PubNub

2015 - 2015

Created PubNub Android WebRTC SDK.
Enhanced SDKs for Android, Polymer, Go, JS WebRTC.
Wrote tutorials featured in Adafruit, JavaScript Weekly, Raspihub, Scotch.io, Engadget, Parse, +more.

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