Fergus Horrobin
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolFergus Horrobin is a Principal Software Engineer in Palo Alto with eight years of experience designing firmware, drivers and runtime software for high-throughput cloud and automotive systems. He specializes in Linux systems, PCIe firmware/drivers and low-latency/HPC algorithm optimization, currently working on PCIe functionality for Microsoft’s Azure Boost DPU. Fergus has a strong background in building end-to-end development lifecycles and simulation-based testing infrastructures that improve verification, uptime and cross-team productivity. His career spans safety- and mission-critical domains from vehicle SIL/HIL at Tesla to cloud accelerator firmware at Microsoft, reflecting a knack for bridging research-grade numerical methods with production systems. Trained as an astrophysicist, he applies rigorous modeling and verification habits from research to complex systems engineering, a less obvious thread tying his work together. Based in the Bay Area, he brings a process-oriented, test-first approach to large-scale infrastructure and accelerator software development.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Master of Science - MS, Astronomy and Astrophysics at University of Toronto
English, French
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Github Skills (17)
journal7
open-access6
do-while6
julia6
cmd6
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jupyterlab6
forloop6
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python6
boolean6
creative-commons5
academia5
simulation1
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
CITA/CTA200H
May 2020 - May 2022
Contributions:55 commits, 51 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
fhorrobin/gizmopy
Jun 2020 - Jan 2023
Contributions:1 PR, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
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