Summary
Ian Hunter is a Senior Member of Technical Staff with 14 years' experience specializing in presilicon and early-device optimization for next-generation NPUs, currently advancing AMD's XDNA AI Engine. He combines deep hands-on compiler and runtime engineering—creating the first Movidius NN compiler and high-performance parallel libraries—with people leadership from his time as a Deep Learning Engineering Manager at Intel Movidius. Ian has a track record of turning prototype compilers into production-grade stacks, improving power/performance tradeoffs, and building developer tooling for memory and compute tiling. His work spans embedded C/C++ and Python graph tooling through to benchmarking and developer-facing debug systems, and he’s published, patented, and presented at company summits. Based in Kells, Ireland, he pairs a Trinity College MSc/BA in Computer Science with a pragmatic flair for shipping measurable performance gains across multiple NPU generations.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS(Ind) Computer Science, Master of Science - MS(Ind) Computer Science at Trinity College Dublin
Junior Certificate Leaving Certificate, Junior Certificate Leaving Certificate at The King's Hospital