Edwin Shepherd
Engineer at TidalSense
Greater Cambridge Area United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolEdwin Shepherd is an engineer with 8 years of practical experience bridging electronic engineering and computer science, holding a First Class BEng from Southampton and an MSc from Edinburgh. He has applied robust embedded and verification skills at CMR Surgical and TidalSense, owning uptime of test clusters and improving sensor performance for real products. A proven team leader and curriculum contributor, he led winning student design teams, helped design a new Computer Engineering degree, and advocated successfully for expanded lab space. He’s also Chief Software Architect for RoboCon, driving free open-source kits and STEM outreach that earned an IET Diamond Jubilee award. Notably, his CI-focused open-source work has become a dependency in some 180,000 GitHub repositories, reflecting significant hidden impact beyond his roles.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MSc, Computer Science, Master of Science - MSc, Computer Science at The University of EdinburghBachelors of Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Bachelors of Engineering, Electronic Engineering at University of Southampton
Github Skills (40)
marine9
robot9
raspberry9
stem9
cleaner8
imports8
socket-io-client8
isort8
api8
usb8
formatter8
robotics8
servo8
libusb7
linter7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
systemetric/shepherd-2
May 2022 - Sep 2022
A rewrite of shepherd
Contributions:8 reviews, 62 commits, 8 PRs in 4 months
rewriteshepherdsheeprobocon
shardros/rider
Jun 2018 - Jun 2021
Contributions:1 PR, 37 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years
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