Curriculum Vitae

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Robin KAY
Curriculum Vitae

Employment 2011-present: Altera Europe Ltd
Software Engineer, Advanced

Working within a team developing high-level synthesis tools for programmable logic.
2007-2009: Imagination Technologies Ltd
Graduate Design Engineer

Worked within a team developing and maintaining drivers and firmware for video decompression silicon-IP. Worked with hardware and simulator teams to aid the design and implementation of new hardware features.

Education 2009-2010: M.Sc., Advanced Computer Science, with distinction.
University of Birmingham

Principle research project concerned the semi-automatic transformation of interpreters into just-in-time (JIT) compilers. Developed both an abstract model using Haskell and a practical implementation based on LLVM in C++.
2004-2007: B.Sc., Computer Science, 1^st class.
University of Hull

Open Source 2010-present: HsQML – high-level Haskell bindings for Qt QML
Developed a library for interfacing Haskell programs with declarative user-interfaces authored using Nokia’s QML technology.
2005-2007: fsrewrite – command line utility
Developed a utility for Solaris which allows non-privileged users to run programs in an environment where file-system paths can be virtually remapped.
2001-2004: xine – open-source media player
Contributed hardware accelerated video scaling and colour space transformation support for several graphics cards used in Sun workstations. Made various other Solaris specific fixes and enhancements.

Skills: Embedded and System-level Programming
Commercial experience developing software for resource constrained embedded devices using both C and assembly languages, as well as experience of driving hardware on desktop platforms. Experience of working with SystemC based hardware models and C++.
: Scripting and Tool Development
Commercial experience of developing small tools in C and Perl to perform task automation and data analysis. Also competent developing in Java and C#.
: Functional Programming
Experience of using Haskell and its common extensions to develop small programs and libraries for personal and academic use. Some experience of Scheme.

Memberships 2010-present: Professional Member of the Association for Computing Machinery
2007-present: Associate Member of the British Computer Society (BCS)

Last updated 2011.03.01