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About David Neto

I work on GPU language standards, compilers, and related tooling.
I'm on the Chrome team at Google since 2014.
Between 2000 and 2014, I worked at Altera on FPGA architecture and CAD. From 2010-2014 I worked on OpenCL for Altera FPGAs.
I am an editor of the W3C's WebGPU Shading Language (WGSL) specification
I have contributed to Khronos Group standards, particularly:
- OpenCL (when I was at Altera)
- SPIR the original LLVM-based one, when I still worked at Altera.
- SPIR-V, the one used by Vulkan and more recent OpenCL versions.
- Vulkan, mainly shader-related things, and the Vulkan Memory Model
I have contributed to:
- SPIRV-Tools: low level SPIR-V utilities: assembler, disassemler, parser, validator, optimizer
- Clspv: Prototype OpenCL C to Vulkan SPIR-V compiler
- DXC's Vulkan SPIR-V backend
  Team lead and mentor
  I said we should do it, could do it, staffed it, and said it should completely avoid using LLVM IR. Also, I wrote the effcee testing harness so we could write FileCheck-like tests that ran very fast in googletest.
- Amber: A text-based shader test framework
- Effcee: A library clone of LLVM's FileCheck, basically. For fast in-process testing such as in googletest.
- Tint: A compiler for WGSL. (My contribution is particiularly the SPIR-V to WGSL conversion.)
I've been a vim user since 1994.
I completed a Computer Science PhD at the University of Toronto in 1999, under the supervision of Prof. Derek Corneil: Efficient Cluster Compensation for Lin-Kernighan Heuristics, PDF
I tend to overuse parenthesized sentences.
Find me at:
- GitHub: @dneto (My GitHub avatar is a fragment of a figure from my PhD thesis.)
- Mastodon: mastodon.gamedev.place/@dneto

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