Alaa Ibrahim
Design Engineer at Arm
Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, United Kingdom
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolAlaa Ibrahim is a design engineer with eight years of hands-on experience spanning RISC-V microarchitecture, hardware design, and security-focused IP development. Currently designing SMMU IP at Arm, he previously strengthened microcontroller defenses at NXP and contributed to next-generation RISC-V architectures as a research fellow with the PULP team at Bologna and ETH Zurich. His background combines academic rigor—MSc work at Aalto and research initiatives—with practical tapeout and FPGA implementation experience, including an ASIC tapeout and WARP-V FPGA porting. He is comfortable across the stack from Verilog RTL to system-level architecture and has tackled machine-learning inference on FPGAs and QA for formal verification tools. Notably, his work blends applied security and autonomous systems, having built a secure RISC-V platform for drone navigation. Based between Bologna and the UK, he brings a research-driven mindset to industrial IP design and security engineering.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Alexandria UniversityMaster of Science - MS Electronics and Nanotechnology, Master of Science - MS Electronics and Nanotechnology at Aalto University
Github Skills (21)
verilog10
ppc64le10
fpga10
processor10
python9
openpower9
vhdl9
risc-v7
tcl7
eda6
cpp5
xilinx5
vlsi5
asic4
branch-prediction4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
alaasal/openpiton
Nov 2020 - Dec 2021
The OpenPiton Platform
Contributions:14 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 1 month
AlaaSalman17/The-Button-Game
Jul 2018 - Feb 2019
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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.