Ben Coughlan
Chief Software Architect at Liquid Instruments
Canberra, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Coughlan is a Chief Software Architect with 11 years of experience designing and delivering realtime embedded systems and FPGA-based digital signal processing solutions. Based in Canberra, he leads system architecture and product development at Liquid Instruments, combining embedded Linux on Xilinx SoCs with high-speed hardware, manufacturing automation, and CI-driven software workflows. His background spans hands-on firmware, hardware prototyping, and IT infrastructure management, plus project leadership using agile methods. Holding a PhD focused on UAVs, energy management and control systems, he brings rigorous research discipline to practical product engineering and calibration at scale. Notably, he blends deep FPGA expertise with an entrepreneurial mindset fostered by a graduate certificate in innovation and years of consulting work.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Australian National University
Github Skills (19)
verilog10
uvm10
verification10
vhdl10
python9
gcc8
simulator7
liquid7
cli7
testbench6
docker6
hardware6
monitoring6
simulation6
ghdl4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
liquidinstruments/cocotb
Jul 2019 - Feb 2021
Coroutine Co-simulation Test Bench
Contributions:37 pushes, 13 branches in 1 year 7 months
benchsimulationtest-benchcoroutineco-simulation
cogsy23/aowslave
Apr 2016 - Apr 2018
Contributions:4 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
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