Mark Harvey
Principal FAE at SiMa.ai
Lombardy, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Harvey is a Principal Field Application Engineer with over 35 years of hardware and machine-learning-focused engineering experience, currently enabling edge ML deployment at SiMa.ai. He has deep expertise in FPGA design, VHDL, multi-gigabit serial links and embedded processing, paired with hands-on ML workflow skills in TensorFlow and Keras from roles at Xilinx and AMD. Known for winning designs and earning “trusted advisor” status with customers, he combines initial architecture definition through prototype bring-up and post-sales technical support across automotive, aerospace, medical and industrial domains. Comfortable in multinational teams and fluent in English and Italian, he excels at translating complex hardware constraints into deployable ML solutions. An early adopter of ML-on-FPGA techniques, he bridges decades of avionics and defense-grade digital design with modern software-centric MLSoC approaches. Based in Lombardy, Italy, he brings rare continuity from 1980s microprocessor and VME system design to today’s ML acceleration architectures.
8 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
Bsc (Hons), Electronics, Bsc (Hons), Electronics at University of Dundee
English, Italian
Github Skills (15)
vitis9
fpga8
xilinx8
linux-kernel7
hardware6
machine-learning5
artificial-intelligence4
inference4
deep-learning4
reinforcement-learning4
computer-vision3
evaluation3
pytorch2
zoo2
quantization1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
foolmarks/license_plate_generator
Apr 2020 - May 2020
Contributions:17 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 25 days
foolmarks/images_to_npy
May 2020 - Oct 2021
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
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