Peter Ogden
Software Engineer at Susquehanna International Group, LLP (SIG)
Ireland
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Ogden is a software engineer with 13 years of experience bridging embedded systems, research, and security-focused engineering roles across Xilinx, Tenable, and SIG. He holds a PhD in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Imperial College and dual degrees from Cambridge, blending deep academic rigor with hands-on product delivery. At Xilinx he helped evolve the open-source PYNQ platform, notably rewriting its MMIO layer to leverage NumPy for dramatic performance gains and adding device-tree and display port support—work that improved Python productivity on ZYNQ devices. More recently he researched network vulnerabilities and shipped tools at Tenable before moving to SIG, demonstrating fluency from low-level, performance-critical code to applied security research. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who turns complex hardware-software challenges into maintainable, high-performance implementations.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Imperial College LondonMaster’s Degree, Photonic Systems and Applications, Master’s Degree, Photonic Systems and Applications at University of Cambridge
English
Github Skills (7)
performance-optimization10
python10
numpy10
sys9
embedded9
hal8
abstraction-layer8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Xilinx/PYNQ
Nov 2016 - Nov 2021
Python Productivity for ZYNQ
Role in this project:
Back-end & Embedded Systems Engineer
Back-end & Embedded Systems EngineerContributions:1 review, 481 commits, 241 PRs in 5 years
Contributions summary:Peter focused on optimizing the performance of the MMIO class in a Python productivity library for ZYNQ. Their work involved rewriting the MMIO class to leverage NumPy for improved integer and byte array read/write performance, resulting in significant speed increases. The user also made contributions to enhance the support for various features, including the generalisation of the device tree parsing along with the addition of a display port driver in the project. Finally, the user contributed to setting up the support for multiple memory access on the target platforms.
pythonzynqpynq
PeterOgden/overlay_tutorial
Jul 2017 - Feb 2019
Premade bitstreams and block designs to complemented the PYNQ overlay tutorial
Contributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 1 year 7 months
pynqpythondesignsoverlay
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