James Hanlon
Silicon Engineer at XTX Markets
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJames Hanlon is a silicon engineer based in Bristol with 14 years’ experience designing and delivering high-performance, highly-parallel chips and toolchains. He progressed from compiler and simulator work at XMOS into pivotal roles at Graphcore—rising from logical and physical design engineer to Director of Logical Design for a 21-person team—and now works on silicon at XTX Markets. James combines deep hardware design expertise with low-level software and LLVM backend development, having built compilers and simulators for novel processor ISAs. He has a strong academic foundation (MEng and PhD, University of Bristol) and a track record of translating research-grade architectures into production silicon. Notably, his background spans both manycore evaluation work and practical continuous-integration/tooling improvements, giving him a rare blend of architectural vision and hands-on delivery.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Saffron Walden County High SchoolMaster of Engineering (MEng), Computer Science, 1:1, Master of Engineering (MEng), Computer Science, 1:1 at University of Bristol
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Github Skills (49)
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jameshanlon/convolutional-neural-network
Sep 2016 - Feb 2019
Contributions:11 commits, 35 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 6 months
jameshanlon/hex-processor
May 2016 - Oct 2022
A processor and tooling for the hex processor architecture
Contributions:34 commits, 13 PRs, 128 pushes in 6 years 6 months
hexassemblerprocessor-architecturecompilersimulator
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