# Andrew Pritchard

> Founding Software Engineer at MatX

Location: Mountain View, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/andrewpritchard

## Work Experience
### Founding Software Engineer @ MatX
Jan 2023 – Present | Mountain View, California, United States
* Leading the compiler and kernels efforts for the MatX architecture, comprising a team of 6 engineers.
* Broadly involved in codesign for many aspects of the architecture and software stack.

### Senior Staff Software Engineer (L7) @ Groq
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Mountain View, California, United States
* Built a hardware description language embedded in Agda based on distributive categories, with the goal of unifying simulation, formal correctness proofs, and RTL implementation under one programming/proof system.

### Software Engineer, XLA-GPU Compiler @ Google
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Mountain View, California, United States
* Transitioned the compiler/runtime from aging NVidia CuDNN kernel APIs to new more-sophisticated ones.
* Designed a new memory management strategy for the XLA GPU compiler, using a novel MLIR dialect to optimize reference-counting code into statically-allocated and reused buffers.

### Software Engineer, ML Accelerator Compiler @ Google
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Mountain View, California, United States
* Designed the compiler backend and optimization strategy using LLVM and MLIR for a synchronous ML accelerator with a massive-SIMD VLIW programming model, and led a small team for this component.
* Acted as the primary liaison between architecture and software teams to drive convergence between early algorithms and architecture.

### Software Engineer, ML Accelerator Compiler @ X, the moonshot factory
Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | Mountain View, California, United States
* Led the compiler backend team for a synchronous ML accelerator with a highly unconventional design and programming model.
* Contributed to hardware design and some RTL features.

### Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2013 – Jan 2018 | Mountain View, California, United States

### Software Engineer @ Fog Creek Software
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012

### Software Engineer @ Fog Creek Software
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011


## Education
### BS in Computer Science
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/andrew-pritchard-4207538b

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Last updated: 2026-04-10