Nigel Perks
Senior Software Engineer at XMOS
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolNigel Perks is a Senior Software Engineer based in Bristol with over six years of focused experience and a long tenure in engineering roles spanning XMOS and Sophos. With a BSc in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Warwick, he brings a strong analytical foundation to embedded and systems software challenges. At XMOS since 2018 he has continued honing low-level and performance-sensitive development skills developed during nearly two decades at Sophos. Nigel combines practical, hands-on coding with system-level understanding, often operating at the intersection of hardware-aware software and secure, reliable product development. Colleagues describe him as steady and detail-oriented, the kind of engineer who surfaces subtle edge cases before they reach users.
5 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BSc, Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BSc, Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Warwick
Github Skills (8)
compiler10
modular10
clang10
toolchain10
llvm10
llvm-ir4
cling3
cpp2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
nigelp-xmos/llvm-project
Mar 2024 - Mar 2024
The LLVM Project is a collection of modular and reusable compiler and toolchain technologies.
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 day
llvm/llvm-project
Jan 2021 - Nov 2024
The LLVM Project is a collection of modular and reusable compiler and toolchain technologies.
Contributions:2 reviews, 9 pushes, 3 comments in 3 years 10 months
compilerstechnologiesclangsubmittoolchain
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