CTO at DroneDeploy
San Francisco Bay Area
Base4
Software Engineer
July 2011 to November 2011
Cambridge, United Kingdom
Netronome
Software Engineer
January 2008 to April 2008
Sunnyvale, United States of America
NVIDIA
Software Engineer
December 2006 to March 2008
Santa Clara, United States of America
Toshiba
Software Engineer
July 2009 to October 2009
Cambridge, United Kingdom
DroneDeploy
CTO and Founder
San Francisco Bay Area
BitX
Founder
January 2013 to May 2013
South Africa
University of Cambridge
PhD, Computer Science
2009 to 2013
University of Cambridge
Masters, Computer Science, 1st
2008 to 2009
Rhodes University
Bachelor of Science Honours, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Systems, 1st
2006 to 2007
Rhodes University
Bachelor of Information Systems, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Systems, 1st
2004 to 2006
Buliding an FPGA back reference genome aligner for aligning read sets to reference genomes. The technology used software based heuristics to seed and guide a distributed parallel aligner built on Xilinx FPGAs. Buliding an FPGA back reference genome aligner for aligning read sets to reference genomes. The technology used software based heuristics to seed and guide a distributed parallel aligner built on Xilinx FPGAs.
What company does Nicholas Pilkington work for?
Nicholas Pilkington works for Base4
What is Nicholas Pilkington's role at Base4?
Nicholas Pilkington is Software Engineer
What industry does Nicholas Pilkington work in?
Nicholas Pilkington works in the Computer Software industry.
Who are Nicholas Pilkington's colleagues?
Nicholas Pilkington's colleagues are Jon Cotton, James Donovan, Meg Mansfield, Evan Bashir, Joseph Schneider, Michael Hernandez, Daniel Ryerson, Anna Schneider, Parker Deuel, and Vlad Orlenko
💼 Past Experience
Nicholas Pilkington has 3 years of experience in software engineering. He started his career at DroneDeploy, where he was responsible for developing a solution to decision tree-based context clustering of HMM on GPU to take advantage of their parallel architecture. He also developed a system for Voice Conversation using a mixture of Gaussian Process Experts.
🎓 Education
Nicholas Pilkington has a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge. He also has a Masters in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge.Nicholas Pilkington's work experience:- From 2009 to 2013, Nicholas Pilkington was a PhDن at the University of Cambridge.- From 2008 to 2009, Nicholas Pilkington was a Masters at the University of Cambridge.- From 2006 to 2007, Nicholas Pilkington was a Bachelor of Science Honours in Applied Mathematics from the University of Cambridge.- From 2004 to 2006, Nicholas Pilkington was a Bachelor of Information Systems from the University of Cambridge.
💡 Technical & Interpersonal Skills
Nicholas Pilkington is interested in data languages and has experience using several. He is currently a software engineer at Base4 from July 2011 to November 2011 in Cambridge, United Kingdom. He buliding an FPGA back reference genome aligner for aligning read sets to reference genomes. The technology used software based heuristics to seed and guide a distributed parallel aligner built on Xilinx FPGAs. Nicholas Pilkington is previous work experience in the development of a specification to re-target the GNU compiler collection to be able to target a new prototype network stream architecture with multiple cores. This involved both RTL and Gimble based optimization. Nicholas Pilkington has experience with both DirectX 9 and DirectX 10 groups working on the graphics card drivers. Nicholas Pilkington is also interested in data languages and has experience using the programming languages C++, Python, Java, and Yes, R.
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