Aaron Graham
Reverse Logistics Analyst at IBM Canada
Canada
Summary
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RockstarAaron Graham is a pragmatic software engineer with nine years of experience who currently applies his technical rigor as a Reverse Logistics Analyst at IBM Canada while also contributing to high-profile open source projects. He has a strong systems and back-end focus demonstrated by work modernizing the VTR Verilog-to-Routing CAD flow and adding AArch64 support and encoding to the Eclipse OMR runtime project. Comfortable bridging legacy C code and modern C++ practices, he has a track record of reducing memory risk, improving build systems, and adding practical tooling (including scripts to transform blackboxed latches). Based in Canada, he blends production engineering discipline with research-oriented contributions to FPGA and runtime toolchains—an uncommon pairing that helps turn low-level innovations into reliable, maintainable artifacts.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (21)
verilog10
gnu-make10
c-language10
build-system10
cmake10
arm10
compiler10
cprogramming-language10
scripting9
architecture9
pyscript9
eda9
python9
travis-ci9
python-scripts9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
eclipse-omr/omr
May 2018 - Jul 2019
Eclipse OMR™ Cross platform components for building reliable, high performance language runtimes
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 commits, 24 PRs, 214 comments in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Aaron's primary contributions focused on adding support for the AArch64 architecture to the Eclipse OMR project. They implemented the initial configuration and build systems for AArch64, updated build scripts and configuration files, and integrated AArch64 support into the Travis CI build process. The user also implemented the basic binary encoding for AArch64 and added necessary files for building compiler technology, specifically enabling OMR JITBUILDER.
eclipseomrruntimes
verilog-to-routing/vtr-verilog-to-routing
Jul 2017 - Jun 2019
Verilog to Routing -- Open Source CAD Flow for FPGA Research
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:38 commits, 6 PRs, 66 pushes in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Aaron primarily focused on refactoring and modernizing the codebase by converting C-style strings to C++ strings within the ODIN_II codebase. They addressed potential memory leaks in the preprocessor and added a command-line option to treat latches as black boxes. Additionally, the user implemented the output of blackboxed latches to BLIF files, introducing a Python script to restore vanilla latches from blackboxed versions.
cadfpgaverilogvtrplacement
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