Akif Özkan
R&D Lead Software Engineer at Cadence Design Systems
Feldkirchen, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolAkif Özkan is an R&D Lead Software Engineer with a decade of experience bridging research and production in high-performance digital design and synthesis. Currently on the core Genus technology-mapping team at Cadence, he specializes in multi-objective optimization of massive logic graphs in C++ with deep understanding of VLSI constraints. His background spans academic research—PhD-level work and research roles at Max Planck and FAU—on DSLs and FPGA/GPU implementations for computer vision, giving him uncommon breadth across hardware-aware software and algorithm design. Based in Feldkirchen, Germany, he combines rigorous research instincts with hands-on engineering to turn formal methods into scalable tooling for chip design. An avid learner by motto, he often operates at the intersection of compilers, synthesis, and hardware, translating theoretical ideas into production-grade optimizations.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Engineering at University of Erlangen-NurembergExchange Student, Electrical Engineering (ESAT), Exchange Student, Electrical Engineering (ESAT) at Katholieke Universiteit LeuvenMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Electronics Engineering, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Electronics Engineering at Istanbul Technical University
Github Skills (21)
amdgpu10
image-processing9
dsl9
vectorization9
opencl9
nvvm9
cuda8
higher-order-functions8
gpu7
compiler-optimization6
continuation-passing-style6
simd5
intermediate5
cpu5
stencil3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
AnyDSL/anyhls
Jun 2019 - Feb 2020
Contributions:39 commits, 3 pushes in 8 months
akifoezkan/Halide-HLS
Oct 2019 - Sep 2021
HLS branch of Halide
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 year 11 months
hlshalide
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.