Kaspar Mätas
Software Engineer
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolKaspar Mätas is a software engineer with a PhD in Computer Science and a decade of experience building secure, high-performance systems, currently based in England and working at Codethink. His research at The University of Manchester focused on FPGA-accelerated databases and hardware security, including a bitstream-level virus scanner and dynamic middleware that composes optimal accelerator pipelines at runtime. He has hands-on experience across DevOps, embedded systems, and web platforms, from Magento eCommerce to Java runtime benchmarking and QA automation. An experienced educator, he taught programming, distributed systems and TDD, and has a knack for translating deep research into practical tooling for cloud deployments. Notably, his work balances IP-sensitive security practices with dynamic hardware acceleration, enabling safe user-submitted accelerators in shared environments.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Tallinna ReaalkoolBSc (Hons) with Industrial Experience, Computer Science, BSc (Hons) with Industrial Experience, Computer Science at The University of Manchester
English, Estonian, Russian, German
Github Skills (9)
fpga10
private-repository10
database9
dos8
sql8
dbms7
jython5
java2
docker1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
FPGA-Research/OrkhestraFPGAStream
Jun 2020 - Jan 2023
Private repository for accelerating DBMS SQL queries with FPGAs
Contributions:2 releases, 683 commits, 26 PRs in 2 years 7 months
dbmssql-queriesfpgassqldatabase
KasparMatas/MLontoFPGAs
Sep 2018 - Jul 2019
Undergraduate final year project
Contributions:3 PRs, 8 pushes, 6 branches in 9 months
undergraduatejavafinal-yeardocker
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