who am i?

hi! i am simon renblad and i am a software engineer with experience in embedded systems and gui applications. i live and breathe open source, and at the moment i am proud to be a part of the artiq team providing a fully open source hardware, firmware and software stack for quantum control systems. i am originally from sweden but i moved to shanghai for a few years before my time in hong kong. i am graduated from the hong kong university of science and technology with an undergraduate degree in computer science. out of work you can find me in the gym, at a bar or running along the harbourfront.

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hire me

i am always open to hearing about new opportunities. my resume is provided below:

resume

benovelty and openapihub

i had a six month internship at benovelty in hkstp. benovelty, among other things, is the company behind openapihub. my responsibilities at benovelty included:

• maintaining and deploying company webpages
• implementing community apis and specifications
• implementing client web application with midwayjs

m-labs

m-labs develops hardware and software for quantum physics experiments, mainly targeting trapped ion applications i am responsible for developing and maintaining the dashboard waveform feature and corresponding proxy, as well as the interactive arguments feature. i have made additional contributions to the firmware of the kasli-soc, by adding support for running idle kernels directly after flashing them & on reboot. additionally i fixed various subtle bugs while upgrading the rust version, getting intimately familiar with the armv7 architecture.

i graduated with an undergratuate degree in computer science from hkust.

during my studies, i focused on exploring new programming paradigms as well as human computer interaction.

i had the opportunity to develop a transpiler, a bomberman copy in assembly, and an ai chatbot to improve quarantine.

i excelled in python and c++, scoring high on exams and assessments.

my final project is a collection of apis focused on making hong kong a sustainable smart city.

learn more about the project here:

hkssc

i have a variety of personal projects listed on my github.

• menth is a simple CLI mental math trainer written in Rust
• punctuate is a simple filter to generate random punctuations for tools like ttyper
• barchart.h is a single header file library for barcharts in ncurses
• world charts visualizes world borders as simple graphs