Alex Ilov
Senior Software Engineer at Bitwise Group
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAlex Ilov is a Senior Software Engineer with eight years' experience building embedded and application software across medical, aerospace, and scientific domains. He delivers low-maintenance, highly efficient code in C, C++, C#, Python and Julia on Windows and Linux, with production experience on resource-constrained hardware and safety-critical avionics. His background spans hands-on FPGA design and verification, DO-178B systems work, and clinical ultrasound application development, giving him a rare blend of firmware, algorithm, and UI expertise. More recently he has combined research-grade scientific computing and quantum-software scripting on supercomputer clusters with practical product development in medical devices. Based in Edinburgh and shaped by international study at Aalto and Calgary, he brings a research-informed pragmatism—preferring solutions that minimize long-term maintenance while enabling advanced capabilities.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Communications Engineering, Master of Science (MSc), Communications Engineering at Aalto UniversityMaster of Science (MSc), Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master of Science (MSc), Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of CalgaryBachelor of Science (BSc), Computing Science, First-class Honours (1.1), Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computing Science, First-class Honours (1.1) at The University of GlasgowPostgraduate Diploma (PGDip), Engineering, Project Management and Manufacturing Studies (Engineering Competence), >75% Overall Grade (1st Class Equivalent), Postgraduate Diploma (PGDip), Engineering, Project Management and Manufacturing Studies (Engineering Competence), >75% Overall Grade (1st Class Equivalent) at Cranfield University
English
Github Skills (2)
speech4
speech-recognition3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
space-pilot-3000/CC_linsys_analysis
Feb 2018 - Mar 2018
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 12 days
askmesmth1/chexnet
Dec 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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