Ashleigh Newman-Jones
Self Employed
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAshleigh Newman-Jones is a software engineer with 11 years of experience who blends full-stack development and consultancy work with ongoing medical studies at Imperial College London. She has led technical teams as CTO and currently runs freelance engineering engagements while maintaining a long-term role at Serac Consulting Ltd. Her practical expertise spans QA and test automation for performance-sensitive low-level projects—contributing SIMD intrinsic test coverage (including AVX512) to the simd-everywhere simde project—alongside web and systems engineering. Based in Stony Stratford, she brings a rare combination of clinical training, advanced chemistry education, and deep technical rigor to solve complex, safety-critical problems.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Medicine Bachelor of Surgery - MBBS Medicine, Bachelor of Medicine Bachelor of Surgery - MBBS Medicine at Imperial College LondonBrighton CollegeMaster’s Degree Chemistry, Master’s Degree Chemistry at University of Bristol
English
Github Skills (9)
test-automation10
avx10
simd10
sse10
x86-6410
x8610
testing10
c178
c118
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
simd-everywhere/simde
Aug 2020 - Nov 2020
Implementations of SIMD instruction sets for systems which don't natively support them.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:4 reviews, 13 commits, 12 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Ashleigh focused on adding and implementing test cases for SIMD intrinsics, specifically for the x86 architecture within the `simde` library. Their contributions involved creating and modifying test skeletons to cover various SIMD instructions related to mask operations and unpack/pack functionality. This work included adding test cases for AVX512 instructions, and ensuring the proper testing and verification of the library's SIMD implementations across various integer data types (8, 16, 32, and 64 bit).
avxsimdsse41avx512arm64
ashnewmanjones/simde
Aug 2020 - Sep 2022
Implementations of SIMD instruction sets for systems which don't natively support them.
Contributions:48 pushes, 26 branches in 2 years 1 month
implementationsinstructionsimd
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