Taylor Simpson (PhD) leads the LLVM compiler and tools team at Qualcomm Innovation Center.  His team is dedicated to delivering state-of-the-art toolchains for all Qualcomm processors, including Hexagon.  He presented a talk on the LLVM back end for Hexagon at the 2011 LLVM Developers meeting.  Prior to  Qualcomm, he worked on optimizing compilers at Intel, Microsoft, and several startups.

He is passionate about making software better and making software developers better.