Feature development for Apple products.

• Multi-threaded peripheral drivers.
• Heterogeneous-core DSP firmware.
• Hardware-software integration and platform-level debugging.

Joined NVIDIA as a firmware engineer to improve reliability and memory efficiency of the GPU context switch processor.

• Refactored firmware modules to decouple interfaces and implement a deferred interrupt processing pattern,
• Implemented structured error handling using explicit return codes and unified cleanup routines to enhance firmware reliability.
• Strengthened firmware security by resolving MISRA C-identified vulnerabilities.
• Built a YAML-configured automation tool to orchestrate CI workspace setup, simulations, and result submissions.

Returned to Qualcomm hardware team to work on profiling methods on network processors.

• Investigated hardware counters and sampling-based profilers to identify processor performance bottlenecks.
• Experimented with tracing-based profiling techniques to reduce performance monitoring overhead.
• Collaborated with software team to assess limitations of current profiling methods and explore improvements.
• Documented findings, summarized profiling research, and contributed to team discussions on potential enhancements.

Joined Qualcomm hardware team to optimize design verification, responsibilities include Verilog compile/elaboration optimization, scripting enhancements, and performance benchmarking using industrial tools.

• Optimized Verilog compile/elaboration flow in Cadence Xcelium using MSIE, improving simulation efficiency.
• Collected and benchmarked elaboration performance metrics across different designs, quantifying efficiency gains.
• Integrated verified script changes into production, creating a faster, scalable, reusable workflow.

Bruker is a company that develops and manufactures high-performance scientific instruments.

• Implemented an efficient hall-sensing stepper motor homing algorithm.
• Built and debugged optical laser shutter assembly with motor, sensors, and PIC microcontroller.
• Developed firmware integrating sensor data, motor control, and host commands for stepper motor driver board.
• Diagnosed Optics Interconnect PCB issues, creating firmware to manage sensors, outputs, serial communication, and alerts.