Oliver Hurst
Staff Engineer at Arm
South Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolOliver Hurst is a Staff Engineer at Arm with eight years of embedded and verification experience, specializing in UVM-based functional verification and low-level system bring-up. He has progressed through roles at Arm from Graduate Engineer to Staff Engineer, pairing deep verification expertise with scripting skills in Python and Perl and strong industry-standard development practices. His open-source contributions include a BL31 port to Trusted Firmware-A for FPGA targets, demonstrating practical knowledge of PSCI, GIC and system counter initialization and position-independent execution. Based in South Cambridgeshire and holding a Master's in Electronic Engineering from the University of Southampton, he brings both academic grounding and hands-on firmware experience to complex SoC validation and boot firmware challenges.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Electronic Engineering, Master's Degree Electronic Engineering at University of SouthamptonHigh School Maths Further Maths Electronics Physics A Levels, High School Maths Further Maths Electronics Physics A Levels at Dr Challoner's Grammar School
Github Skills (19)
assembly10
controller10
architecture10
interrupt-handling10
interrupt10
initialization10
initializer10
sys10
assemble10
assembler10
fpga10
arm10
pid-controller10
embedded10
initialize10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ARM-software/arm-trusted-firmware
Nov 2019 - Jan 2020
Read-only mirror of Trusted Firmware-A
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:8 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Oliver primarily contributed to the development of a BL31 port for a specific FPGA image within the Trusted Firmware-A (TF-A) project. Their work focused on enabling essential functionalities, including a basic console, PSCI implementation for secondary CPU initialization, and initializing the system counter and GIC. The user's contributions demonstrate a deep understanding of low-level system initialization and configuration within an embedded environment. They also configured the build environment and enabled position-independent execution.
firmware
oswede/ai-business-card
May 2018 - Sep 2018
Contributions:1 push in 3 months
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