Nick Desaulniers is the team lead and engineering manager of the Android LLVM toolchain team at Google. Nick founded the ClangBuiltLinux project and served as the Linux kernel’s maintainer for Clang/ LLVM build support. He also worked on the XLA compiler for Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), and device bringup for Nexus and Pixel phones.

Nick also worked at Tesla on hardware/software co-design, compilers, and runtimes for Tesla’s two in-house ML architectures for Autopilot: Dojo for training and the AI5 chip for inference.

At Mozilla, Nick hacked on open source projects like Firefox, Firefox OS, Emscripten, and Rust.

Nick has twice keynoted the US LLVM Developers’ Meeting, and helps organize Linux Plumbers Conference’s Toolchain Track, and the LLVM Bay Area Monthly Meetup.

Nick is a proud dad; his hobbies include collecting vinyl records, attending live music concerts, retro game collecting, watching IMSA Sports Car Racing, and organizing the largest Corvette-only car show in Northern California with his car club, Santa Clara Corvettes.