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Work Experience

• Senior Member of Technical Staff, AMD

  Jan, 2024 - Present

  Member of the AIE Architecture (Programming) Team

  • Presented Poster in EMEA Tech Summit 2024

• Deep Learning Engineer (Team Lead), Intel Movidius

  Jan, 2021 - Dec, 20232 years 11 months

  After an internal re-organisation, I was promoted to manage my own team. I balanced both my existing technical execution commits along with new managerial responsibilities.

  • Managed a high-performing team of varying experience levels

  • Conducted Performance Reviews, Interviewing, Raises/Promotions

  • Liaised with other internal teams on product deliveries

  • Technical execution of pivotal system design

  • Extensive development across several chip generations

  • Python, Embedded C++, JavaScript, SQL, Jenkins

• Senior Deep Learning Software Engineer, Intel Movidius

  Feb, 2020 - Jan, 202111 months

  As a senior engineer, I continued to work on high-impact features and shape our products.

  • High visibility feature development

  • Architectural planning & roadmapping

  • Intern/Junior supervision, Performance Improvement Plan supervisor

  • Sprint Management

  • COVID-19 remote readiness

  • Internal-facing web applications and services

  • Development on topics such as: Numeric precision, Performance Optimization, Tensor Quantization, NN Frameworks (OpenVino, Tensorflow, Caffe, etc)

  • Intel Software Professionals Conference Reviewer (AI & Big Data, Open Source, Software Development)

  • Embedded C++, Python, JavaScript, Jenkins

• Deep Learning Software Engineer (Embedded Vision), Intel (Formerly Movidius)

  Dec, 2016 - Feb, 20203 years 1 month

  In 2016, Movidius was acquired by Intel. I was involved in many public facing projects and travelled to interact with customers, deliver coaching and to intensely collaborate with my peer developers

  • Development of the Neural Network software stack for the Movidius Neural Compute Stick (Formerly the Fathom NCS)

  • Developed several self-initated prototype projects for internal use

  • Scaling existing solutions for customer readiness and future proofing

  • Python graph manipulation

  • Algorithmic Libraries and drivers in Embedded C++

  • Built test infrastructure for an 'ever-green' project environment

  • Direct customer engagement & enablement

  • Conference attendance & technical demonstrations: EVS, IMVIP, NIPs

  • Wide softer skill use: Interviewing, Presentation and even press photography

• Embedded Vision Software Engineer, Movidius

  Jun, 2015 - Nov, 20161 year 5 months

  I joined Movidius in 2015 as one of the first 'software' hires. My focussed development on Neural Networks would become the core selling point of the VPU several years later

  • Initial developer of Deep Learning software on VPU technology

  • Delivered heavily parallel and performant C++ libraries to internal teams

  • Published several hardware drivers of the hardware's Computer Vision components

  • Created demonstration applications for internal & external customers

  • Designed frameworks and reports to make software results accessible to non-technical users

• 'DevOps' Software Engineer, Wonga.com

  Jun, 2014 - May, 201511 months

  • Restructured the 'Decision' team's codebase for Continuous Deployment

  • Planning, estimating, and continuously improving code quality, system design and processes

  • Full Scrum Process. Jira

  • Saved huge costs by implementing a lazy-execution paradigm for our AWS hosts via my own proposal

  • Improved packaging coherency, build times and the 'path to live'

  • Scrum, Standups, Retro, Kanban, Sprint Cycles

  • Git, Jenkins, PowerShell, Ruby, MSBuild, C#

  • Internal improvements for Financial Conduct Authority license and image overhaul

• Multi-System Developer, FullStack

  Jul, 2013 - Sep, 20132 months

  I interned at FullStack for a summer, where other startups outsourced their product development.

  • Direct Client Interaction

  • Backend & Frontend development of Balls.ie 'Secondscreen' webapp

  • 45Sound Multiangle Concert Viewing Android App

  • Design fixes and development of Dubstarts, Fullstack and other websites

  • Django, jQuery, Sass, Java

• Testing & Management Lead, ACTON Solictors

  Jan, 2013 - Apr, 20133 months

  As part of my BA, we were assigned a client who we met and discussed requirements with. We built a social media and scrapbooking application with strong privacy and media support

  • Co-managed team of 12 students

  • Work assignment and supervision

  • Django, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, Python

  • Stimulating under-performing team members

• Coding Intern, GetBulb

  Apr, 2012 - Sep, 20125 months

  I interned at GetBulb whilst they were in the StartUpBootcamp program. Directly working with the founder, I exchanged the variety of graphs the application offered to users for their data.

  • JavaScript, Sproutcore, Geometry formulae

  • Design and development of various reactive graph types including 3D piechart

  • Winners of the Irish Times Digital Challenge 2012

Projects Experience

• Software Management Simulator

  Jan, 2014 - Present

  We created a desktop game that simulated Software Management in a large organization. As a "Serious Game", the focus was on accurate simulation and educational use.

  • Best score and subsequent grade of the class

  • PyGame, PGU, Python

  • Iterative development & deliverables. Scrum

• WordQuest - An RPG Inside Wordpress

  Apr, 2012 - Apr, 20142 years

• Research: Optimizing Web Content Download in Low-Performance Networks

  Jan, 2013 - Jan, 20141 year

  For my Final Year Project, I designed, implemented & evaluated several exploratory techniques in an attempt to alleviate access costs of low-throughput or congested networks, such as those found in developing countries or crowded stadiums.

  • 1st Place Q&A/Poster, Honourable Mention for Pitch

  • Analysis of existing and alternative web compression methods

  • Proxy & Browser Plug-in Development

  • Vision-based auto-vectorization

  • Semantic content removal

  • Python, Javascript, Node.JS and HTML

• Android Quiz Engine - Write Questions, Get An App.

  May, 2013 - May, 20131 day

• DiamondSquare

  Feb, 2015 - 2015-02-31

  A demonstration of a terrain-generation algorithm

• 9-Patch File Generator - Scalable Images Quick

  Aug, 2012 - Dec, 20124 months

  An application to automatically create 9-patch images from regular PNGs

• Multiplayer Connect-4

  Jan, 2014 - Jan, 20141 month

  Playable over command line and inspired by games like Netris. Connect 4 is written in python, with the interface designed with curses, supplied in the standard library.

• P2P Search System

  Jan, 2014 - Jan, 20141 month

  A small-scale search engine system over P2P

• LoL Second Screen Application

  Jan, 2014 - Jan, 20141 month

  A website to demonstrate tactics with your team beforehand, or during a game of League of Legends

• Optimized Mandelbrot

  Jan, 2014 - Jan, 20141 month

  A highly optimized (without changing the original mathmatical algorithm) version of the Mandelbrot fractal

• Fairy Vs Truck

  Jan, 2014 - Jan, 20141 month

  A 3D video game where you must defend the forest from impending construction work

• MagicalGirl FPS

  Jan, 2017 - Jan, 20171 month

  A simple FPS where you can defeat monsters. Unity based.

• Homebank Conversion Scripts

  Jan, 2017 - Jan, 20214 years 1 month

  Conversion scripts from Bank of Ireland and Allied Irish Bank to Homebank Finance Tool

• Cartography Tools

  Jan, 2017 - Jan, 20203 years 1 month

  A tool to generate Cartography assets for custom map making + An online map maker tool

• TTRPG GM Tool

  Jan, 2019 - Jan, 20201 year 1 month

  A web tool to generate NPC names, create handouts, document ttrpg campaigns. Establishes a dice grammar

• Raven's Mark Visual Novel

  Jan, 2021 - Jan, 20221 year 1 month

  A 2-chapter visual novel with 4 minigames detailing the life in an adventuring guild.

• Androkon - Convention Organizer Android App

  May, 2012 - May, 20142 years

  Androkon is a convention organiser app for Android, aiming to detail all the animation and videogame related conventions around Ireland.

  • In-app Timetables, Maps, Building Plans & Social Media Feeds

  • Pitching & Customer Engagement

  • TCD Launchbox Entrant

  • Customer of Trinity College Dublin's Computer Science Software Engineering Curriculum alongside companies like Microsoft or Corvil

  • Android, Java, XML, APIs

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