Thomas Wuerthinger is a Vice President at Oracle leading programming language implementation teams for languages including Python, JavaScript, and Java. He is the architect of the Graal compiler and the Truffle self-optimizing runtime system. Previously, he worked on the Crankshaft optimizing compiler of V8 at Google, and the Maxine research virtual machine at Sun Microsystems. He received a PhD degree from JKU Linz for his research about dynamic code evolution.
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