My goal is to find employment income, as well as a group of like-minded people
to work on engineering problems. I would prefer to work on a team that is
trying to accomplish something that is considered technically difficult. I am
open to working on many different types of engineering problems.
I have found that many of the people that I have worked with previously no
longer answer my messages, without any explanation. Based on the fact that my
name was secretly removed from this paper that Intel
published, it appears that some of
them secretly had negative opinions about me that they did not express while I
was working with them. It appears possible that they might have done other
things to harm my reputation that I am not aware of. It would mean a lot to me
if I were able to find a social group that was able to empathize and understand
how I feel about the things that have
happened. As a secondary objective, I
hope that someday all of the work that I have done for my previous employers
can be released as open source, including commit history, so that I can prove
that I made significant contributions. This does not necessarily need to be the
case for future employers.
Work Experience
shane.oconnell.ccPrincipal Engineer
November 2022 - Present
Experienced the events that led me to creating a page on my website about
being trapped in my apartment
Wrote a custom Linux package manager written in Python
Wrote software for managing large amounts of information saved from the
Internet
Designed and implemented a custom network firewall, which uses a custom
protocol over a serial cable in an attempt to prevent the Intel Management
Engine from
accessing the Internet using Ethernet
Became interested in doing projects related to lab grown
meat
Did not make any employment income during this period
RapidSiliconPrincipal Engineer
February 2022 - November 2022
Responsible for the development of RapidSilicon's timing analysis software
Partially completed code to allow the VPR open source placement and routing
engine to interface with OpenSTA to analyze timing, rather than using the
Tatum timing analyzer that is part of VPR
GroqCompiler Engineer
January 2021 - February 2022
Joined my coworkers from the DLA team at Intel after several of them had quit
their jobs at Intel to get jobs at Groq
Worked on an MLIR-based compiler written in C++ that compiles neural network
models written in PyTorch and ONNX for the Groq TSP
Performed optimizations which resulted in significant improvements in
compile time as well as execution time on the Groq TSP
Designed improvements to the representation of graphs between compiler passes
which reduced the complexity of representing graphs and reduced the
complexity of the algorithms that operate on it
Photo 1 and 2 - YouTube video thumbnails that I thought were
messages from computer hackers
IntelDeep Learning Software Engineer
April 2016 - January 2021
One of three founding members on the Deep Learning Accelerator project for
Intel FPGAs
Designed hardware (RTL) for accelerating neural networks on FPGAs
Played a strong technical role over the life of the project, by identifying
new optimization opportunities and providing guidance to newer members of the
team
Implemented hardware designs using a combination of SystemVerilog and OpenCL
C using the Intel FPGA SDK for OpenCL
Provided feedback and suggestions for optimizations to improve the Intel FPGA
OpenCL compiler based on real-world use
Photo 3 and 4 - The paper that Intel published where they removed
my name
AlteraSenior Software Engineer
May 2015 - March 2016
Developed and maintained software code in C and C++ for the FPGA SDK for
OpenCL
Implemented new features, fixed bugs, and improved performance of the runtime
and Linux device driver code
After December 2015, this position was at Intel, which acquired Altera
AlteraSenior Software Engineer
September 2013 - April 2015
Worked on the TimeQuest timing analyzer, part of the Quartus FPGA design
software
Developed and maintained software code for a large C++ application that
analyzes circuit timing using multi-threaded graph traversals on large graphs
with millions of edges and nodes
Analyzed performance with code analysis tools and implemented changes to
improve performance
Avalon MicroelectronicsSenior Design Engineer
April 2008 - August 2013
Designed RTL hardware cores in SystemVerilog for FPGAs to implement various
networking protocols including OTN, Ethernet, and Fibre Channel
Analyzed designs using the Quartus FPGA software to find ways to reduce area
and improve performance
Before starting as a regular employee in May 2010, worked at the company as a
student for three four-month co-op work terms in April 2008, January 2009,
and August 2009
After December 2010, this position was at Altera, which acquired Avalon
Microelectronics
ConsilientSoftware Engineer
January 2007 - December 2007
Developed new features and fixed bugs in the Windows Mobile version of
Consilient's primary consumer software application, Consilient Push, using C#
and C++
Performed black box testing of the Java version of Consilient Push
Worked at the company for two four-month student co-op work terms in January
2007 and August 2007
National Research CouncilTechnical Support Worker
April 2006 - August 2006
Provided technical support for networking and computers issues
Created a system for forwarding log messages from Linux, UNIX, and Windows
machines to a central server
This position was a four-month student co-op work term
Mrs. Vanelli'sFast Food Employee
~2005
Made pizzas and prepared salads for customers
Washed dishes
Primarily worked in the location inside the food court at my university
The TelegramNewspaper Delivery Person
~2001
Delivered newspapers every day
Delivered advertising flyers once per week
Collected cash payments from customers
kryptOSFounder
2001 - 2003
Became interested in operating systems and assembly language while in high school
The project did not proceed very far, however it did reach the point where
the operating system was able to boot and print a
message
Photo 5 - Message printed when my boot code was executed containing
an obvious buffer overflow
Animorph90's Animorphs / ani-morphs.comFounder
~1997
Created a website which provided
information for fans of the
Animorphs book series
Wrote JavaScript code to implement interactive browser-based quizzes and
short stories which allowed arbitrary words to be replaced (mad
libs)
Experienced copyright infringement when I noticed that my JavaScript quiz
code had been copied verbatim into another fan website which had a quiz
Was sent an Animorphs card game for free by the company that made it in order
for me to review it on my website, though if I remember correctly I believe I
did not follow through and write the review
Master of Engineering, Computer Engineering (2018)
Memorial University of Newfoundland
Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Engineering (2010)
Publications
DLA: Compiler and FPGA Overlay for Neural Network Inference Acceleration
28th International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications
(FPL), August 2018 (with 10 other co-authors)
https://doi.org/10.1109/FPL.2018.00077
Harnessing Numerical Flexibility for Deep Learning on FPGAs HEART 2018:
Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Highly-Efficient
Accelerators and Reconfigurable Technologies, June 2018 (with 10 other
co-authors)
https://doi.org/10.1145/3241793.3241794
An OpenCL™ Deep Learning Accelerator on Arria 10 FPGA '17: Proceedings of
the 2017 ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays,
February 2017 (with 4 other co-authors)
https://doi.org/10.1145/3020078.3021738
Patents
Floating-point decomposition circuitry with dynamic precision Patent
pending, published 2020-07-09 (with 2 other co-inventors)
Fast filtering US Patent 10083007, granted 2018-09-25 (with 3 other co-inventors)
Methods and apparatus for rapid interrupt lookups US Patent 9811484,
granted 2017-11-07 (with no other co-inventors)
