SHAWN NEMATBAKHSH
SF Bay Area, CA, USA
408-306-6527
shawn@nematbakhsh.com
shawnn@gmail.com
Work Status: US Citizen

EXPERIENCE

Rivos - Santa Clara
Software Engineer
Oct 2021 - Present
* Design, test, and bring-up of SOC power management firmware running on RV32 cores.
* Silicon bring-up, test, and validation.
* Open source FW contributions for OpenTitan (open source Root-of-Trust) in Zephyr RTOS.
* Software tooling for control of FPGA prototyping platforms.
* Software tooling for power delivery testing of mainboards.
* PCIe power logging system, firmware, and tools deployed in datacenter (https://github.com/rivosinc/pcie-power-logger).

Waymo - Mountain View
Software Engineer
Jan 2018 - Oct 2021
* ECU firmware for brakes, steering, throttle, and lighting control of autonomous cars and trucks.
* Microcontroller safety self-checks and diagnostics.

Google - Mountain View
Software Engineer
May 2012 - Jan 2018
* Embedded controller, BIOS, Linux kernel, platform and component bring-up for Google-branded and third-party Chromebooks.
* Significant contributions to cros-ec, Coreboot, flashrom, Linux kernel, and other related open source projects.

Zoran - Sunnyvale
Software Engineer
Feb 2008 - May 2012
* AE / FAE for Camera SOC firmware, supporting camera SDK for top point-and-shoot camera customers.
* Firmware features for COACH (Camera On A Chip) digital camera SOC / DSP.

Medlink Healthcare Networks - Los Angeles
Software Engineer
Jul 2006 - Jan 2008
* Medical data processing and web development.

DNF Controls - Los Angeles
Software Engineer
Mar 2005 - Jul 2006
* Firmware development for devices used to control video servers used in broadcast industry.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

* Skilled embedded C programmer. Also familar with C++, Python, Java, Perl.
* Familiar with many technologies commonly used in embedded devices, such as I2C, SMBus, SPI, CAN, UART.
* Significant open source contributions to cros-ec, Coreboot, Zephyr, Linux kernel, and other popular open source projects.

EDUCATION

University of California, Riverside, 2005
M.S. in Computer Science
MS Thesis: External Interfaces and Software Tools for Electronic Blocks.
Worked as TA, Linux SysAdmin, and RA in Embedded Systems lab.

University of California, Riverside, 2003
B.S. in Computer Science
BS Project: UNIX Password Cracking with FPGAs.
Worked as RA and Grader.

LINKS

Homepage: http://www.nematbakhsh.com
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/shawnnemat/
github: http://www.github.com/snematbakhsh