Oliver Pulsford
Hardware Engineer at IMC Trading
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolOliver Pulsford is a hardware engineer based in Sydney with nine years of experience building low-latency FPGA and C++ systems for finance and control systems, currently designing FPGA/ASIC strategies at IMC Trading. He has applied his Verilog, C and C++ skills to cutting-edge quantum control at Quantum Brilliance and to high-frequency trading infrastructure, demonstrating a strong blend of hardware design and software engineering. Oliver also brings practical full-stack experience from defence and research roles, having built sensor visualisations with React/Cesium and backend APIs with Django, and contributed UX-focused fixes to popular mobile open-source projects. Comfortable tutoring and translating complex theory into hands-on workshops, he pairs technical depth with clear communication and a track record of shipping reliable, performance-critical systems.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Australian National University
Stackoverflow
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4questions
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Github Skills (20)
javascript10
ios10
react-native10
google-places-api10
user-interface10
ui-design10
swift10
component-development9
nsurlsession9
front-end-development9
uid9
ref8
reference-counting8
flatlist8
exoplayer6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
thiagoperes/IDMPhotoBrowser
Jan 2017 - Nov 2017
Photo Browser / Viewer inspired by Facebook's and Tweetbot's with ARC support, swipe-to-dismiss, image progress and more
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:6 commits, 4 PRs, 1 comment in 10 months
Contributions summary:Oliver focused on enhancing the iOS photo browser application. Their contributions centered around improving the user experience, including fixing caption positioning and done button placement. They added iPhone X support by calculating safe areas and implemented custom image failure responses with an improved image view.
photo-browser
FaridSafi/react-native-google-places-autocomplete
May 2017 - Aug 2017
Customizable Google Places autocomplete component for iOS and Android React-Native apps
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:7 commits, 3 PRs, 4 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Oliver primarily focused on improving the functionality and user experience of a React Native Google Places autocomplete component. Their contributions included fixing bugs related to default value loading, preventing results from disappearing off-screen, and adding an activity indicator to provide visual feedback during searches. They also merged branches and addressed incorrect function formatting, indicating code maintenance and integration efforts. Furthermore, the developer updated the component to include a customizable loading component.
androidgoogle-places-autocompleteiosreact-native-app
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