Ali Masjedi

• Proficiency in working with embedded processors and microcontrollers including ARM, RISC V, Tensilica Xtensa, ARM CORTEX-A and CORTEX-M (Core IPs, ST STM32, NXP LPC), TI, Microchip, Cypress (capacitive touch projects), and Atmel ARM7 and AVR. • Experienced in C/C++ programming in bare-metal and multi-threaded real-time operating systems (RTOS) such as Zephyr, FreeRTOS and uTask, with a focus on low-power design and peripheral driver development, including bootloader and API creation. • Skilled in system and application-level development, including hardware and firmware level proof of concept using evaluation boards. • Experienced in board level hardware design and development using Altium Designer (circuit schematic and PCB design), NI Multisim, and simulation tools. Skilled in circuit board bring-up, debugging, and troubleshooting using lab instruments such as multimeters, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, electronic loads, and soldering stations. • Proficient in communication protocols such as SPI, I2C, UART, RS232, RS485, DMA, and GPIO, as well as analog and digital peripherals including ADC, DAC, timers, PWM, and RTC. Skilled in working with sensors. • Proficient in power and performance optimization and tuning through techniques such as DVFS, clock gating (CG), power gating (PG), P-state, C-state and T-state and thermal management. Experienced in workload characterization utilizing event tracing, system profiling, event logging, monitoring, instrumentation, and benchmarking. • Knowledgeable in security and cryptography technologies including block and stream ciphering, MAC, hash functions, DES, AES, and SHA. • Experienced in the full software development lifecycle, including planning, definition, design, development, integration, testing, debugging, validation and verification, release, deployment, maintenance, and continuous improvement. • Skilled in preparing product specifications and project documents.