In a typical tech companies, the "Fellow" position is usually given to individual contributors who don't want to get into senior management roles but still wort

In a typical tech companies, the "Fellow" position is usually given to individual contributors who don't want to get into senior management roles but still worth to take a position equivalent to VP/SVP. Chris Lattner was a director at Apple, so probably he would be simply promoted to VP rather than given the Fellow position.