Ross Owen
Director, Software IP And Applications
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRoss Owen is a technical director and embedded-software leader with 14+ years at XMOS driving hardware-software integrated products from low-level drivers to complete reference designs. He has led engineering teams and platform strategy, publishing around 15 platform libraries and ~80 application notes while automating release pipelines and formalising hiring and career frameworks. His hands-on background includes pioneering high-speed USB Audio Class 2.0 reference designs, low-power USB audio endpoints, and deep expertise in ULPI/UTMI, RMII and audio interfaces. Ross combines algorithmic optimisation and real-time, resource-constrained engineering with practical silicon verification experience (RTL simulations) and low-level hardware debug. He’s known for turning complex customer requirements into award-winning products and design wins, and for establishing repeatable processes that scale technical delivery. Based in Bristol, he pairs methodical documentation and customer-facing support with an appetite for exploring new application areas such as xCORE.AI tooling.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Richard Huish College, TauntonMEng (Hons), Computer Science, MEng (Hons), Computer Science at University of Bristol
Github Skills (88)
wave10
microphone10
digital-signal-processing10
i2s10
locking10
sample-rate10
audio10
pulseaudio10
control-library10
usb10
peripheral10
signal-processing9
printing9
python9
deep-learning9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
xross/sw_usb_audio
May 2023 - Dec 2024
XMOS USB Audio reference design
Contributions:86 pushes, 14 branches, 2 tags in 1 year 7 months
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