Vanya Yaneva-cormack
Software Engineer at Canon Medical Research Europe Ltd.
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolVanya Yaneva-Cormack is a software engineer with 11 years’ experience bridging industry and academia, currently building ML training tools for medical diagnostics at Canon Medical Research Europe. She holds a PhD in Software Engineering focused on GPU-accelerated software test execution and a strong HPC background in parallel programming, compilers and heterogeneous architectures. Vanya has three years of commercial software engineering experience and a track record of shipping C++ systems, migrating large codebases (e.g., QtWebKit→QtWebEngine) and automating performance benchmarking. She enjoys mentoring junior engineers and interns and is skilled at turning research prototypes into practical tooling that speeds up testing and model training. A detail that surprises colleagues: her PhD work enabled executing functional test suites in parallel on GPUs, not just numeric kernels, demonstrating creative application of HPC techniques to software quality.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science and Mathematics, Second Class Honours, First Division (2:1), Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science and Mathematics, Second Class Honours, First Division (2:1) at The University of EdinburghStudent At Large, Computer Science and Mathematics, Student At Large, Computer Science and Mathematics at University of Chicago
Bulgarian, English, German
Github Skills (39)
gpgpu9
opencl9
cpp8
cuda8
multithreading8
mongodb8
parallel-processing8
stream8
memory-bandwidth8
benchmark8
nodejs8
testing7
javascript7
parallel7
openmp7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
wyaneva/clClibc
Oct 2016 - Jun 2020
Contributions:22 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 9 months
wyaneva/dotfiles
Jan 2016 - Apr 2021
Contributions:72 commits, 57 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 3 months
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