Prem Chintalapudi is a Master of Engineering student at MIT, as a part of Alan Edelman's lab. He has been working with LLVM for the past 1.5 years, and has made several contributions to the open-source Julia repository to improve Julia's LLVM internals. Prem has been writing software non-professionally for the last 6 years. He enjoys the cycle of designing, creating, and improving software.