Ewan Thompson
Control Systems Engineer at Self-employed
Perth, Western Australia
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Top SchoolEwan Thompson is a Control Systems Engineer with nine years' experience bridging embedded software, robotics, and industrial automation, currently working at Paradigm Engineers and freelancing. He holds a B.Eng(Hons) in Mechatronics/Robotics and has delivered autonomy and embedded solutions at scale for organisations from startups to publicly traded firms, including Fortescue. Pragmatic and safety-minded, Ewan champions the Swiss Cheese model when designing systems that move in 3D space and brings strong systems thinking to complex, multidisciplinary problems. Social and extroverted, he excels at teamwork, lifting morale while rapidly distilling functional solutions under time pressure and diving deep when the problem demands it. Intellectually curious since childhood, he pairs hands-on electronics and prototyping instincts with a disciplined software engineering background and a taste for edge-AI and autonomy experimentation.
9 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (Honours), Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (Honours), Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering at Murdoch University
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Github Skills (62)
robotics10
jetson10
temporal10
image-recognition10
pytorch-lightning10
nvidia-jetson10
nvidia10
jetson-xavier10
segmentation10
uncertainty10
artificial-intelligence9
caffe9
python9
machine-learning9
inference9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ewth/esp32-lidar
Sep 2020 - May 2025
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
ewth/yolor-edge
Nov 2021 - Feb 2022
Experimental implementation of real-time object detection algorithm YOLOR on embedded systems (edge computing devices)
Contributions:137 commits, 1 PR, 16 pushes in 2 months
artificial-intelligencecomputer-visiondeep-learningedge-computingembedded-systems
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