Tom Deakin
Senior Staff Engineer - Platform QA
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Deakin is a Senior Staff Engineer specialising in platform QA with 12 years of experience bridging high-performance research and production engineering. Formerly a Senior Lecturer and Head of the HPC Research Group at the University of Bristol, he led investigations into performance portability of massively parallel simulation codes across GPUs and many-core CPUs and chaired the Khronos SYCL Working Group (2023–25). An expert in parallel programming models such as OpenMP and SYCL, he has hands-on experience authoring OpenCL/CPU/GPU kernels and Python drivers—evidenced by contributions to HandsOnOpenCL exercises and solutions. Now at Graphcore, he brings academic rigor to platform quality engineering while also maintaining a long-standing parallel career as a professional trumpet musician, a detail that reflects both discipline and creative breadth.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Junior Academy, Junior Academy at Royal Academy of MusicPostgraduate Artist Diploma, Trumpet, Postgraduate Artist Diploma, Trumpet at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and DancePostgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice, Education, Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice, Education at University of Bristol
Github Skills (4)
matrix-multiplication10
opencl10
python10
linear-algebra8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
HandsOnOpenCL/Exercises-Solutions
Jul 2013 - Mar 2019
C, C++ and Python Code for Exercises and Solutions
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:223 commits, 8 PRs, 6 pushes in 5 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Tom primarily contributed Python code, specifically for solving exercises and solutions within the OpenCL environment. Their work involved implementing various OpenCL kernels and functions for common tasks, such as vector addition, chaining of vector additions, and matrix multiplication. The user also implemented several supporting functions and drivers in Python.
python-codepythoncpp
UoB-HPC/SNAP_MPI_OpenCL
Jun 2015 - Aug 2019
Contributions:239 commits, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 4 years 2 months
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