Quentin Colombet

Quentin Colombet is a veteran LLVM contributor with a focus on backends. He is the architect of the new instruction selection framework (GlobalISel) and code owner of the LLVM register allocators.

He has more than two decades of experience working on different compiler backends for various architectures (GPU, CPU, micro controller, DSP, ASICs, among others) and compilers. He started to contribute to the LLVM ecosystem when he joined Apple in 2012 and has worked on the x86, Aarch64, and Apple GPU backends to name a few. Since starting on the LLVM infrastructure, he has helped interns and new hires onboard the LLVM infrastructure.