Peter Birch
Silicon Engineer at XTX Markets
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Birch is a silicon engineer with 12 years' experience designing and delivering high-performance ASICs and accelerators, currently at XTX in Bristol. He has led hardware and software co-design efforts—most recently as VP of Engineering at VyperCore—building a runtime-accelerating hardware platform that targets managed languages like Python and C# with up to 5x performance gains. His background spans microarchitecture, RTL and front-end design, verification flows and internal EDA tooling from roles at Graphcore and Blu Wireless, where he shipped modem SoCs and brain-scale AI systems. Peter combines hands-on RTL and firmware work with technical leadership across architecture, verification and physical implementation teams, and has a Cambridge M.Eng. in Electronics and Information Sciences. A detail often missed: he has repeatedly owned and improved end-to-end front-end design and verification flows, making him as fluent in engineering infrastructure as in IP block design.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) Electronics and Information Sciences, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) Electronics and Information Sciences at University of CambridgeNorth Bristol Post 16 Centre
Github Skills (53)
simulation10
verilog10
systemverilog10
hardware10
build-environment10
uvm9
eda9
python9
vhdl9
hardware-acceleration9
verification9
firmware9
cocotb9
job-runner9
hdl9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Intuity/packtype
Sep 2021 - Dec 2025
Packed data structure specifications for multi-language hardware projects.
Contributions:13 releases, 16 reviews, 40 PRs in 4 years 4 months
data-structurehardwaresystemverilogrtlpython
Intuity/Tktr
Nov 2016 - May 2017
Contributions:29 commits, 19 pushes in 5 months
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