Mikus Sturmanis

Thurles, Ireland · Email · GitHub · LinkedIn

Summary

Engineer that specializes in reducing compute. Co-author of SwarmFormer, a fresh transformer-like architecture, and sole developer of autonomous driving models that are optimized for resource-limited hardware.

Technical Skills

Languages/Frameworks

Python C TypeScript NumPy OpenCL CUDA

Tools/Platforms

Azure AWS PyTorch Git

Experience

Takara.ai – UK | Frontier Research Team | 2025 – Present

  • Pioneered the development of SwarmFormer, revolutionizing efficiency in compute-restricted environments.
  • Spearheaded a high-performance C implementation of SwarmFormer, achieving unprecedented optimization in memory usage and processing speed.
  • Executed comprehensive benchmarking and profiling strategies, dramatically enhancing inference efficiency and setting new performance standards.

Publications

SwarmFormer: Local-Global Hierarchical Attention via Swarmed Token Representations (2025)