Daniel de Villiers

FPGA Developer

https://talent.gravityer.com/daniel-de-villiers

Software Engineer.

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Key Strengths

Strong foundational experience in FPGA development with VHDL, Verilog, and SystemVerilog.
Demonstrated ability to integrate FPGA acceleration into network systems (OvS-DPDK-Coding-Switch).
Experience with network coding concepts and implementations (RLNC_VNF, DPDK-based-Coding-Switch, MininetCodingSwitch).
Proficiency in C++ and Python, essential for system-level development and scripting in FPGA workflows.
Exposure to DPDK framework, indicating understanding of high-performance packet processing.

Cultural & Operational Fit

Cultural Fit Analysis

The candidate's projects show a strong focus on network engineering and FPGA development, which aligns well with a target role of FPGA Developer. The diversity of projects, from network coding switches to web scraping, indicates a broad technical curiosity. However, all projects are personal, which limits insight into team collaboration or professional work environments. The absence of professional experience or education makes it difficult to fully assess cultural fit.

Soft Skills & Operational Fit

Insufficient data to assess soft skills or operational fit. The candidate's projects are primarily personal, limiting insight into collaboration or work attitude.

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Projects

go-bidding-sytem

July 3, 2023 – August 2, 2023

A Go bidding system using Chi

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jse_directors_dealings_scraper

June 29, 2023 – July 6, 2023

A Go web scraper application to obtain information about recent directors dealings. Specifically for JSE stocks, collecting from MoneyWeb.

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RLNC_VNF

October 6, 2019 – October 29, 2019

Virtual Network Function (VNF) based Random Linear Network Coder (RLNC) functions.

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OvS-DPDK-Coding-Switch

February 8, 2019 – November 19, 2019

All switching software as well as control software for a physically and emulated capable network coding switch. FPGA Acceleration added .Based on OvS and DPDK.

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DPDK-based-Coding-Switch

June 1, 2018 – January 31, 2019

A network coding capable switch implemented using Intel's DPDK framework.

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MininetCodingSwitch

March 26, 2018 – June 1, 2018

An OpenFlow switch capable of network coding in Mininet.

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Key Strengths

Strong foundational experience in FPGA development with VHDL, Verilog, and SystemVerilog.
Demonstrated ability to integrate FPGA acceleration into network systems (OvS-DPDK-Coding-Switch).
Experience with network coding concepts and implementations (RLNC_VNF, DPDK-based-Coding-Switch, MininetCodingSwitch).
Proficiency in C++ and Python, essential for system-level development and scripting in FPGA workflows.
Exposure to DPDK framework, indicating understanding of high-performance packet processing.

Cultural & Operational Fit

Cultural Fit Analysis

Soft Skills & Operational Fit

Insufficient data to assess soft skills or operational fit. The candidate's projects are primarily personal, limiting insight into collaboration or work attitude.

Daniel de Villiers

Key Strengths

Cultural & Operational Fit

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Projects

Key Strengths

Cultural & Operational Fit