Owned the car’s rule-critical electrical architecture, designed and brought up more than ten custom PCBs, and built the validated 75-cell BMS across hardware, embedded firmware, diagnostics, and desktop tooling.
Keelan Reilly
I build complete hardware systems.
I was born and raised in Dublin. I’m an electronic engineer working across digital hardware, embedded software, electronics, Linux, and system architecture. I’m also a classical flautist and pianist, and a former principal player with the National Youth Orchestra of Ireland.
At ASML, I built an FPGA–SoC platform for real-time monitoring and calibration of precision-motion hardware, spanning VHDL, memory-mapped IP, Linux drivers, shared-memory graphics, FPGA-driven HDMI, and commissioning tooling.
In Formula Student, I owned the electrical architecture of a 300 V electric race car: shutdown and precharge systems, high-voltage isolation, low-voltage distribution, safety interlocks, and more than ten custom PCBs. I also designed, programmed, and validated its 75-cell battery-management system.
I work best on problems where the requirements are incomplete and the difficult part is deciding what belongs in hardware or software, identifying failure modes, and making the result reliable and testable.
My current interests are compute systems, performance engineering, and hardware–software co-design.
Selected work
Implemented and placed-and-routed three MAC-array architectures to measure when compute sharing is worth its fixed twofold latency cost—and when it only saves resources the design does not need.
Implemented a fixed-function MNIST inference pipeline with signed fixed-point arithmetic, reaching 4.7 ms compute latency at 100 MHz and 92.2% accuracy.
Implemented a cycle-accurate NASDAQ ITCH ingestion pipeline with Ethernet framing, CRC verification, and backpressure-safe parsing in 38 cycles.