Chris Lattner
Co-founder & CEO, Modular
About
Chris Lattner is an American computer scientist and the co-founder and CEO of Modular, where he is developing Mojo, a high-performance AI programming language. He is the original creator of the LLVM compiler infrastructure, the Clang compiler, and the Swift programming language. He spent twelve years at Apple leading the Developer Tools team, then held roles at Tesla, Google (where he co-created MLIR), and SiFive. His work on LLVM earned the ACM Software System Award in 2012.
Key Contributions
- Created LLVM compiler infrastructure
- Designed the Swift programming language at Apple
- Co-created MLIR compiler infrastructure at Google
- Building Mojo, a Python superset for AI workloads
- Received ACM Software System Award for LLVM (2012)
