Ammar Shahin

ACE — post-layout verification for chip designs up to 300 GB

• Rewrote the DSPF/CDL ingestion pipeline from Python to Rust: 11,500 s → 35 s per GB.
• Rebuilt the render pipeline: ~3,500 s → 7.5 s per GB, with 100x+ less memory.
• Designed the DuckDB storage layer: typed schemas, hashed hierarchy indexing, safe edit flows.
• Set up GitHub Actions CI for the Rust/PyO3 wheels, with circuit regression tests that fail on a mismatch.
• Mentor 4 engineers and review their code.

CONMOD — Volkswagen cross-car Telematics Control Unit (with Valcon)

• Built a thread pool that cut CPU use by 40%.
• Wrote 30%+ of the Feature-on-Demand message mappings.

SCALA — Daimler Level-3 LiDAR (Mercedes S-Class)

• Worked on system behavior, bus communication and error management: fault detection, DTC storage and recovery.
• Brought up the RTOS processor on ZYNQ UltraScale, including the BSP and bootloader.
• Wrote a real-time egomotion algorithm in C++.
• Fixed 300+ Coverity issues.

Consumer electronics

• Led design, development and testing of 6 products in one year, from concept to mass production.

Automotive Software Development Bootcamp