Chris Lattner
Chris Lattner | |
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Chris Lattner at FOSDEM in 2011 | |
| Born | Christopher Arthur Lattner 1978 (age 46–47) |
| Nationality | American |
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| Known for | LLVM Clang Swift programming language Mojo programming language |
| Spouse | Tanya Lattner |
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| Fields | Compilers Programming languages |
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| Thesis | Macroscopic Data Structure Analysis and Optimization (2005) |
| Doctoral advisor | Vikram Adve |
| Website | nondot |
Christopher Arthur Lattner (born 1978) is an American software engineer and creator of LLVM, the Clang compiler, the Swift programming language and the MLIR compiler infrastructure.
After his PhD in computer science, Lattner worked at Apple for 12 years, eventually leading the Developer Tools team. Between 2017 and 2022, Lattner worked in various positions for Tesla, Google and SiFive. He is currently co-founder and CEO of Modular AI, a company building an artificial intelligence developer platform.