Oliver Perks
Software Engineer at Meta
Reading, England, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolOliver Perks is a seasoned software engineer with 13 years of experience building and enabling high-performance compute and inference applications across industry leaders including Meta, Rivos, AWS, and Arm. With a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Warwick, he blends deep research grounding with hands-on systems engineering—especially in HPC, developer enablement, and inference application enablement. He has moved between roles that span application engineering, principal HPC engineering, developer advocacy, and senior engineering at a silicon-focused startup, showing fluency across hardware-software boundaries. Based in Reading, England, Oliver is adept at translating complex performance requirements into production-ready tooling and workflows that accelerate model and HPC deployments. A pragmatic collaborator, he brings both low-level optimization experience and developer-focused evangelism to help teams get solutions running at scale.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of Warwick
Github Skills (47)
python10
windows10
solve10
linux10
benchmarking10
performance-testing10
regression-testing10
macos10
continuous-integration9
cluster-computing9
hpc9
scientific-computing9
build-tools9
shared-memory9
hydrodynamics8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
UK-MAC/CloverLeaf3D_ref
Oct 2014 - Jan 2016
Contributions:23 commits, 2 PRs, 11 pushes in 1 year 3 months
UK-MAC/CloverLeaf_OpenACC
Oct 2015 - Apr 2025
OpenACC Port of CloverLeaf_ref
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 5 branches in 9 years 6 months
openacc
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