Peter Birch
Silicon Engineer at XTX Markets
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Birch is a silicon engineer with 12 years' experience designing and delivering high-performance ASICs and accelerators, currently at XTX in Bristol. He has led hardware and software co-design efforts—most recently as VP of Engineering at VyperCore—building a runtime-accelerating hardware platform that targets managed languages like Python and C# with up to 5x performance gains. His background spans microarchitecture, RTL and front-end design, verification flows and internal EDA tooling from roles at Graphcore and Blu Wireless, where he shipped modem SoCs and brain-scale AI systems. Peter combines hands-on RTL and firmware work with technical leadership across architecture, verification and physical implementation teams, and has a Cambridge M.Eng. in Electronics and Information Sciences. A detail often missed: he has repeatedly owned and improved end-to-end front-end design and verification flows, making him as fluent in engineering infrastructure as in IP block design.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) Electronics and Information Sciences, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) Electronics and Information Sciences at University of CambridgeNorth Bristol Post 16 Centre
Github Skills (37)
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verilog9
verification9
hdl9
job-runner8
python8
firmware8
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hardware8
gitweb7
brightscript7
cgit6
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Intuity/forastero
Jul 2023 - Apr 2025
Making cocotb testbenches that bit easier
Contributions:14 reviews, 45 PRs, 106 pushes in 1 year 9 months
hdlpythonsimulationsystemverilogverilog
Intuity/packtype
Sep 2021 - Mar 2025
Packed data structure specifications for multi-language hardware projects.
Contributions:9 releases, 9 reviews, 29 PRs in 3 years 7 months
firmwarehardwarepythonrtlsystemverilog
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