Barry Byford
Principal EDA CAD Engineer at Pragmatic
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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SeniorBarry Byford is a Principal EDA/CAD Engineer based in Cambridge with over a decade of hands-on experience building semiconductor design automation and verification tooling across Linux and Windows. He blends deep Python toolchain expertise with practical IP development and process automation, gained through senior roles at Qualcomm, CSR, and Mentor Graphics. Comfortable in customer-facing and commercial contexts, he translates complex chip-design requirements into reliable, production-grade CAD solutions. His background spans analogue and digital physical design, tools engineering, and silicon development, giving him a rare end-to-end perspective from layout to tapeout. Known for bringing pragmatic engineering practices to cross-functional teams, he recently joined Pragmatic to continue advancing EDA workflows for modern silicon challenges.
11 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (82)
python10
spi10
micropython10
bluetooth10
gatt10
bluez10
bbc-micro10
ruuvitag10
i2c10
pygame10
python-extension10
dbus10
gpio10
pyboard10
pycharm10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
ukBaz/festival
Jul 2015 - Mar 2021
Contributions:10 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 8 months
ukBaz/ble_beacon
Feb 2015 - Mar 2021
STEM workshop reading bluetooth beacons
Contributions:8 PRs, 33 pushes, 11 branches in 6 years 2 months
bluetooth
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