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Lex Bailey's CV
Hi, I'm Lex, and my pronouns are they/them. Software Development and Formal Verification are the things I enjoy. I'm looking for a job where I can write robust and reliable software, ideally by applying formal methods. I'd also love to develop new techniques and processes for formal verification. I particularly enjoy working on low-level code and digital logic design. My skills focus around the interaction between software and hardware.
Ask me more by email: cv-contact (at) lexbailey (dot) me
Experience
In quasi-reverse-time order...
Formal Verification Engineer at Codasip
Since October 2024 I have worked at Codasip on formal verification of RISC-V cores. In that time I have made contributions to Sail, the verification tool and specification language for instruction set architectures, to improve its usefulness as a tool for verifying System Verilog implementations of RISC-V.
PhD study at the University of York
At the University of York department of Computer Science: I worked on a method for formally verifying confidentiality properties in computer programs or computer hardware. As part of that work I have developed a proof-of-concept workflow for verifying Rust programs.
Senior Research Engineer & Various internships at Arm Research
I joined Arm Research full time in 2019. I started as a Research Engineer and was later promoted to Senior Research Engineer. I also had four internships at Arm during my undergraduate study.
In total I spent four years at Arm, in which time I developed...
- Formal verification tooling for parts of Arm's CPU architectures.
- A fuzzing tool for random testing of security related architecture.
- A cycle accurate model of an architecture in-development for performance analysis. This has since been released as 'Helium' https://www.arm.com/why-arm/technologies/helium/[link text contains company name, redacted]
- Tooling for analysing the performance of garbage collection algorithms, and experimentation to learn which methods work best for a particular design of CPU.
Computer Science Degree (BEng) from the University of York
I graduated from the University of York with a first-class degree in Computer Science in 2019. I started the degree in 2016.
My final-year project was in the areas of machine learning and natural language processing. I developed and compared a few methods for extracting time expressions from English-language prose. You can see a demo of this here: https://lexbailey.github.io/timex_extractor_demo/[link text contains username, redacted for anonymity]
Electronic Engineering Certificate of Higher Education from the University of York
I started studying Electronic Engineering with Nanotechnology at the University of York in 2013, but after my internship in the summer of 2014, and my experience with the second year of the course. I decided that I would rather study Computer Science. I left this course after two years (in 2015), saved enough money during an internship to be able to start a CS degree, and moved to the CS department at the same university in 2016.
Skills
Through my time in university and the world of work, I have reached a very high skill level in the following areas:
- Various Technologies for Formal Methods
- Theorem Proving (Isabelle)
- SMT solving (Z3, CVC4)
- Digital design verification tools (Jasper, Questa, VC)
- Programming in various languages. In particular:
- C
- Rust
- Python
- Java
- Various Assembly Languages
- Working on large software and hardware projects with a team, collaborating with tools including: Jira, Git, and various Git related tools.
- Solving problems independently.
Contact me
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Contact me by email: cv-contact (at) lexbailey (dot) me
Find my github page: https://github.com/lexbailey
Some more fun stuff
I'm not all work, if you need a break from reading dry CVs, you might enjoy looking at some of my curious hobby projects.
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