Simon Jackson
Director And Coder at K Ring Technologies Semiconductor
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon Jackson is a seasoned technologist and hands-on director with 13 years of commercial experience and roots in programming dating back to a ZX81 in 1984. He leads K Ring Technologies Ltd, blending FPGA/VHDL microprocessor design, embedded C, and full-stack web development to deliver compact, power-efficient solutions and experimental data compression algorithms. Comfortable across Java, Python, LAMP, and DevOps, he also develops audio plugins for VCVRack and maintains open-source work focused on silicon-area efficiency. An environmental advocate, he aims to apply ultra-low-power FPGA modules to practical products and has self-published technical books exploring AI and analytics. Notably, his hobbyist projects—like a BSD-licensed microprocessor and the Rubik compression codec—demonstrate a long-standing commitment to optimization and pragmatic engineering.
13 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Business Startup Advice Business Startup Awareness, Business Startup Advice Business Startup Awareness at Tower Hamlets College, LondonBEng. Electrical and Electronic Engineering, BEng. Electrical and Electronic Engineering at City St George’s, University of LondonA Levels Maths and Science, A Levels Maths and Science at Wakefield District College
Github Skills (200)
synthesizer10
firmware10
qmk10
visual-studio10
piano10
arm10
editor10
keyboard10
midi10
audio10
avr10
computer-music10
synth10
music10
atmel10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
jackokring/pico-zxspectrum
Aug 2022 - Sep 2022
ZX Spectrum for Raspberry Pico Pi RP2040 (with Extras)
Contributions:125 commits, 107 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
rp2040software-defined-radioz80raspberry-pi-pico-rp2040raspberry-pi
jackokring/doris.nvim
Sep 2024 - Mar 2025
A neovim plugin (slow work)
Contributions:178 pushes, 6 tags in 6 months
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