Thorben Louw
Lead Consultant at Equal Experts
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolThorben Louw is a Lead Consultant based in Bristol with 11 years of experience building production-grade software and guiding teams through complex migrations and iterative delivery. He blends deep systems and high-performance computing experience from Sky and academic research with practical ML engineering applied at Equal Experts and John Lewis to solve thorny client problems. Thorben has driven architectural change—strangling legacy monoliths into microservices, boosting release frequency, and promoting DevOps, IaC and TDD across large retail and public-sector platforms. His background spans embedded C/C++ and Java performance work to modern data and ML stacks, reflecting rare full-stack fluency across constrained devices, enterprise services and ML accelerators. He holds a distinction MSc in Advanced Computing (Machine Learning, Data Mining and HPC) and a Cum Laude BEngSci, signalling a strong theoretical foundation underpinning his delivery focus. Outside client delivery he has run a small consultancy and combined research into emerging AI/ML processors with hands-on engineering, making him comfortable turning experimental ideas into production outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
PGCert, Software Development, Distinction, PGCert, Software Development, Distinction at The Open UniversityBEngSci, Computer Systems, Applied Mathematics, Cum Laude, BEngSci, Computer Systems, Applied Mathematics, Cum Laude at Stellenbosch UniversityMSc Advanced Computing - Machine Learning, Data Mining and High-Performance Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Distinction, MSc Advanced Computing - Machine Learning, Data Mining and High-Performance Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Distinction at University of Bristol
English, Afrikaans, German, Spanish
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Github Skills (33)
parallel-processing10
gpgpu9
benchmark9
memory-bandwidth9
opencl9
stream9
openmp9
cuda9
openacc8
gpu8
low-level8
machine-learning7
hpc7
ipu7
poplar6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
UoB-HPC/ipu-hpc-cookbook
Feb 2021 - Jun 2022
Useful tutorials and recipes for developers doing low-level work with the Graphcore IPU
Contributions:28 commits, 2 PRs, 34 pushes in 1 year 4 months
recipesfor-developersipugraphqlgraphcore
ealingchambermusic/ealingchambermusic.github.io
Feb 2016 - Mar 2018
Contributions:58 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 1 month
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