SF Scala: Eugene Burmako & Alex Suhan Interview
ai.bythebay.io Nov 2025, Oakland, full-stack AI conference Scale By the Bay 2019 is held on November 13-15 in sunny Oakland, California, on the shores of Lake Merritt: https://scale.bythebay.io. Join us! ----- [Swift fo TensorFlow is covered in several talks at https://scale.bythebay.io, Bay Area, November 14-15, 2019.] Eugene Burmako (burmako@google.com) is working on Swift for TensorFlow at Google AI. Before joining Google, he made major contributions to Scala at EPFL and Twitter, founding Reasonable Scala compiler, Scalameta and Scala macros. Eugene loves compilers, and his mission is to change the world with compiler technology. Alex Suhan (asuhan@google.com) is also working on Swift for TensorFlow at Google AI. He has been using LLVM to accelerate machine learning and data analytics workloads for the last five years. Alex enjoys working at the interface between software and various hardware accelerators. Our work is the result of discussions and collaboration with many folks - our colleagues from Google, the Swift compiler team from Apple, as well as our community members, including Jeremy Howard from http://fast.ai. We're very grateful for everyone's input and contributions!