Ashley Setter
Lead Software Engineer at NquiringMinds
Southampton, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAshley Setter is a Lead Software Engineer with a decade of experience, currently heading the engineering team at NquiringMinds and driving applied security work across IoT and AI transparency initiatives. She leads development on TrustNetz, a NIST-collaborative project that blends W3C Verifiable Credentials, BRSKI-based secure onboarding, and a dynamic inference engine for continuous device assurance. Her background as a physicist (iPhD in levitated optomechanics) informs a rigorous, experimental approach to engineering—she has built FPGA-based real-time control systems and optimized Cython simulation code for high-performance scientific workloads. Ashley combines full-stack development experience with standards-driven security and supply-chain thinking (TAIBOM), translating complex research into deployable, auditable systems. Based in Southampton, she brings interdisciplinary leadership that bridges academic research, embedded/FPGA systems, and secure cloud-enabled device lifecycles.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
iPhD - Next Generation Computational Modelling, Physics - Levitated Optomechanics, iPhD - Next Generation Computational Modelling, Physics - Levitated Optomechanics at University of SouthamptonA Levels, AS Levels and GCSEs, A Levels, AS Levels and GCSEs at Tomlinscote Schools and Sixth Form College
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (80)
child-process9
directed-graph8
rust8
persian8
persian-calendar8
python8
cargo8
restructuredtext8
force-directed-graph8
sphinx-extension8
networking8
asynchronous8
pandas7
non-blocking7
async7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
AshleySetter/optosim
Oct 2017 - Jun 2019
Contributions:1 release, 28 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
AshleySetter/optoanalysis
Oct 2021 - Nov 2022
Matterwave group data analysis library
Contributions:5 releases, 3 commits, 24 PRs in 1 year
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