# Kurt𝗂s Charnock

> Software Engineer at Trilitech

Location: London, England, United Kingdom
Profile: https://flows.cv/kurts

Rust/C++ developer

I enjoy working on improving the performance of complex systems

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Trilitech
Jan 2025 – Present | London Area, United Kingdom
Implementing a high-performance, deterministic RISC-V virtual machine in Rust.

https://github.com/tezos/riscv-pvm

Currently working on a durable storage project using RocksDB and our own copy-on-write Merkleised AVL tree.

### Senior C++ Systems Engineer @ Vicon
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Oxford, England, United Kingdom
Motion-capture C++ development

### Systems Performance Engineer @ Oxa
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Oxford, England, United Kingdom
Formerly Known as Oxbotica. Developer for Oxa Driver.

The main focus of my job is to improve the performance of self-driving car software either by developing components from scratch or by making changes to existing code. I have also worked on more conventional new features in C++ and Python projects, such as sensor integration and tooling.

### Software Engineer @ Arm
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Cambridge, United Kingdom
Developer for libddssec, a security library for safety-critical communications, written in C.

https://github.com/ARM-software/libddssec
https://github.com/ARM-software/libddssec/commits?author=kurcha01-arm

Formerly on rotation in the Machine Learning group working on Compute Library in which I added support for YOLOv3, written in C++.
https://github.com/ARM-software/ComputeLibrary
https://review.mlplatform.org/q/status:merged+owner:kurtis.charnock%2540arm.com

Recently began working on Autoware, an open source software for self-driving vehicles.
https://github.com/Autoware-AI/autoware.ai

### Graduate Software Engineer @ Arm
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Cambridge, United Kingdom
Part of the Open Source Software group in a team writing a security library for the DDS communications protocol used by ROS

### Graduate Electronic Engineer @ INTARSO UK LTD.
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Royal Tunbridge Wells
Embedded software.

Research and development of electronic shooting targets capable of detecting instances and locations of hits. Given control of development of a new class of target through the full product lifecycle. Primarily working on Arm Cortex microcontrollers in C with supporting work on Linux, with Matlab, with Python, designing hardware, and with GLSL for GPU programming.


## Education
### Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) in Electrical and Electronic Engineering
The University of Manchester


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kurtis-charnock

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Last updated: 2026-04-05