Chris Laidler
Digital Signal Processing Engineer at LifeQ
Western Cape, South Africa
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Top SchoolChris Laidler is a Digital Signal Processing Engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in wearable edge-device algorithms for blood oxygenation, currently advancing GPU-oriented HPC research as a PhD candidate in Computer Science at the University of Cape Town. He has driven DSP development across startups and product teams at HealthQ Technologies and LifeQ, translating physiological signal processing research into deployable firmware and low-power algorithms. Chris combines deep academic training—including a first-class computer science bachelor's—with hands-on production experience optimizing real-time pipelines for constrained devices. Based in the Western Cape, he bridges research and product delivery, uniquely focusing on porting and accelerating signal-processing workloads on GPUs for next-generation wearable analytics.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at University of Cape Town
English, Afrikaans
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Github Skills (14)
data-visualization6
odf6
python6
matplotlib6
ansible6
pulsar5
opendocument5
c-library3
bitbucket3
image3
image-processing3
bitmap3
png3
cpp2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ChrisLaidler/presto
Sep 2014 - Feb 2020
Contributions:524 commits, 8 PRs, 406 pushes in 5 years 5 months
pythonpulsaranalysis-toolkit
ChrisLaidler/pngwriter
Jul 2017 - Nov 2018
C++ library for creating PNG images
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 year 3 months
cppimagec-libraryimage-processingpng
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