Abdullah Varıcı
Staff Logical Design Engineer at Graphcore
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAbdullah Varıcı is a Staff Logical Design Engineer with a decade of experience designing and securing cryptographic hardware, now contributing to AI-focused SoC front-ends at Graphcore. He has deep hands-on expertise in RTL design and verification of high-performance, SCA-hardened IPs (TRNG, SHA, AES, RSA, ECC) and practical experience applying masking, formal leakage detection, and EM/power analysis. Abdullah’s background spans open-source security work on OpenTitan, commercial HSM and QDID projects, and top-level integration with RISC-V/ARM, AXI, PCIe and DMA subsystems. He combines firmware and kernel driver development with scripting and embedded programming to bridge silicon, software and test infrastructure. Based in Cambridge, he is deliberately expanding into hardware security for AI/GPU/CPU architectures, bringing a rare fusion of cryptographic rigor and system-level SoC engineering. Colleagues value his analytical approach and proven ability to uncover subtle side-channel leakages that others miss.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Master's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Özyeğin UniversityHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Istanbul Erkek LisesiBachelor's degree, Electronic and Communication Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electronic and Communication Engineering at Istanbul Technical UniversityMaster's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Master's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Boğaziçi University
German, English, Turkish
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Github Skills (7)
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electrical-engineering8
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asic7
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
abdullahvarici/opentitan
May 2022 - Jun 2023
OpenTitan: Open source silicon root of trust
Contributions:104 pushes, 48 branches in 1 year
root-of-trustrootsilicontrust
abdullahvarici/ot-sca
May 2022 - May 2023
Side-channel analysis setup for OpenTitan
Contributions:60 pushes, 30 branches in 1 year
side-channel
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