Talon Myburgh
Co-Founder at Mydon Solutions
Western Cape, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolTalon Myburgh is a co-founder and FPGA/HDL specialist with 8 years’ experience building radio telescope backends, high-performance data acquisition systems, and real-time DSP for scientific instruments. He has delivered FPGA gateware and automated calibration for projects with the SETI Institute, the CASPER collaboration at UC Berkeley, and Discovery Insurance, blending hands-on commissioning at the VLA with rigorous regression-tested HDL libraries. Currently completing a PhD while running Mydon Solutions, Talon combines computational physics, embedded hardware design, and HPC/systems administration to push real-time transient detection and technosignature search pipelines. He brings a rare mix of academic rigor and field deployment know-how, including experience denoising dynamic spectra and integrating FPGA modules into MATLAB/Simulink workflows.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
IEB - National Senior Certificate General Schooling, IEB - National Senior Certificate General Schooling at Michael Mount Waldorf SchoolDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Physics and Electronics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Physics and Electronics at Rhodes University
Github Skills (53)
simulator9
gcc9
hardware9
vhdl9
masters9
testbench8
fpga8
fft8
ghdl8
verification8
typescript8
simulation8
microsoft7
electron7
llvm7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
COSMIC-SETI/COSMIC-VLA-CalibrationEngine
Jan 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:8 PRs, 52 pushes, 9 branches in 2 years 2 months
talonmyburgh/casper_dspdevel
Apr 2020 - Nov 2022
VHDL development of the CASPER FFT for use in the CASPER toolflow.
Contributions:2 reviews, 498 commits, 49 PRs in 2 years 7 months
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