Kenny Dow
Senior FPGA Engineer at DroneShield
Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolKenny Dow is an FPGA engineer and computer scientist with 10 years of experience bridging academic research and commercial SoC and SDR systems. He holds a PhD from UNSW (2023 Dean’s Award) for work on RISC-V memory safety that combined ISA extensions and LLVM compiler techniques, and now applies that expertise at DroneShield building FPGA-based SDR communication and radio-threat systems. His background spans SoC integration, GPU and ARM-like core design, Linux kernel driver work, and biosensor AFE SoC prototypes—skills that let him move innovations from paper to deployable hardware. Kenny’s rare mix of compiler-level security research and hands-on FPGA system engineering makes him effective at closing the gap between architecture, toolchain, and fielded embedded systems.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at National Sun Yat-sen UniversityBachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science at National Tsing Hua UniversityUNSW Sydney
English, Chinese, Mandarin
Stackoverflow
21reputation
375reached
2answers
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Github Skills (13)
memory-management6
cpu-architecture6
duplicates6
memory-safety6
assembly6
grep6
instruction-set6
security6
cygwin6
rocket-chip2
compression2
compiler1
risc-v1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Lycheus/shore-llvm
Mar 2019 - Jun 2021
Contributions:53 commits in 2 years 3 months
Lycheus/SHORE
Mar 2021 - Dec 2021
Contributions:16 commits, 2 pushes, 2 comments in 9 months
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