John Thomson

lowRISC

Biography

John works at lowRISC as a senior product manager where he advocates the company’s mission of getting open silicon source everywhere. He worked on delivery of key projects including OpenTitan (security root-of-trust) and the Sunburst Project (memory safety using CHERI), amongst others.

He is a proponent of open source having worked at an open source Linux and software services delivery company. John also has experience in cloud computing, having working as an engineer and project manager on multiple European and Commercial Projects.

John Thomson

CHERI Talks

Announcing COSMIC | CHERITech’25

14/11/2025

Manchester, UK