Simon Staal

FPGA Developer

https://talent.gravityer.com/simon-staal

C++ enjoyer

Optiver

Key Strengths

Strong foundational knowledge in Verilog and SystemVerilog for hardware description, as evidenced by the 'MAPS-MIPS-CPU' project.
Experience with compiler design and instruction set architectures (ISAs) through projects like 'langproc-cw' and 'Odyssey_C_Compiler', which is relevant for understanding hardware-software interfaces.
Proficiency in C++ and Python, essential for FPGA development toolchains and scripting.
Directly relevant project experience in CPU design ('MAPS-MIPS-CPU') aligns well with an FPGA Developer role.

Cultural & Operational Fit

Cultural Fit Analysis

The candidate's projects are primarily academic or personal, demonstrating initiative and a strong technical interest. However, without information on team-based projects, open-source contributions, or non-technical interests, it is difficult to fully assess cultural fit. The current experience is listed as 'FPGA Developer' at Optiver, but with a future start date, indicating this is a prospective role rather than current experience, which limits the assessment of real-world team collaboration.

Soft Skills & Operational Fit

The provided data does not contain sufficient information to assess soft skills or operational fit. Project descriptions are technical and do not offer insights into collaboration, problem-solving approach, or communication style.

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Projects

advent_of_code_2023

December 1, 2023 – December 10, 2023

advent_of_code_2023 — GitHub repository

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The-Alchemist-s-Companion

October 26, 2023 – October 26, 2023

This repository contains links to the work produced as part of my Master's thesis, officially titled "An Intelligent Scrabble Board for Alchemist 2024".

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Knights_Solver

April 10, 2023 – April 13, 2023

This attempts to generate the shortest possible solution for knight movement puzzles similar to those found in the game [KNIGHTS](https://heisarzola.com/games/knights)

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shallow-water

March 5, 2023 – March 24, 2023

shallow-water — GitHub repository

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EmbeddedSoftware

March 4, 2023 – June 8, 2023

EmbeddedSoftware — GitHub repository

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langproc-cw

January 25, 2023 – Present

Compiler coursework repository for Instruction Architectures and Compilers module at Imperial College London

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machu_picchu

October 9, 2022 – November 3, 2022

Pictures from machu pichu

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security_2022_labs

January 27, 2022 – March 22, 2022

History of all the work completed as part of the labs / tutorials for COMP 60015: Network and Web Security (331)

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Odyssey_C_Compiler

March 2, 2021 – February 27, 2023

This repository contains the preprocessed C90 to MIPS assembly compiler produced as part of the EIE 2nd Year Instruction Set Architecture and Compilers coursework.

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MAPS-MIPS-CPU

November 22, 2020 – July 13, 2022

This repository contains the MIPS CPU designed as part of the instruction set architecture (ISA) module for 2nd year EIE at Imperial College London.

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Key Strengths

Strong foundational knowledge in Verilog and SystemVerilog for hardware description, as evidenced by the 'MAPS-MIPS-CPU' project.
Experience with compiler design and instruction set architectures (ISAs) through projects like 'langproc-cw' and 'Odyssey_C_Compiler', which is relevant for understanding hardware-software interfaces.
Proficiency in C++ and Python, essential for FPGA development toolchains and scripting.
Directly relevant project experience in CPU design ('MAPS-MIPS-CPU') aligns well with an FPGA Developer role.

Cultural & Operational Fit

Cultural Fit Analysis

Soft Skills & Operational Fit

Simon Staal

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