Personal details

Paul R.

Software engineer

Timezone: London (UTC+1)

Summary

I have worked on a wide variety of projects, mainly in the scientific/engineering/medical fields, and am also experienced with real-time/embedded projects, often involving DSP, image processing, control systems, audio, communications, etc. I have extensive expertise in code optimisation (SIMD etc), and have spent time training and mentoring junior software engineers in programming, debugging and optimisation skills.

Technical skills

Top 3 skills

C・30 yrs High-Performance Computing・20 yrs Performance Optimization・25 yrs

Other skills

Signal Processing・25 yrs Embedded Systems・20 yrs C++・20 yrs Image Processing・20 yrs Parallel Programming・20 yrs Xcode・15 yrs macOS・15 yrs Linux・15 yrs MATLAB・5 yrs Assembly・10 yrs Electrical Engineering・10 yrs Computer Vision・10 yrs OpenCV・10 yrs Debugging・25 yrs

Work Experience

Principal Software Engineer

KLA-Tencor | Jan 2001 - May 2020

C++

Image Processing

Assembly

MATLAB

Parallel Programming

High-Performance Computing

Software engineering for high performance image processing applications in the semiconductor industry. In addition to software design, implementation and debugging etc, I was the primary resource for code optimisation using SIMD (SSE/AVX/Neon/AltiVec).