Alain Lou
FPGA Engineer at Citadel Securities
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlain Lou is an FPGA engineer with nine years of hands-on experience building high-performance hardware and tooling for low-latency trading and compute platforms, currently at Citadel Securities. A University of Waterloo Computer Engineering graduate, he has interned across Intel, IMC, and Microsoft, contributing to FPGA runtimes, memory subsystem IP, and HFT-oriented designs while driving infrastructure and build-system rewrites. He combines deep RTL/SoC skills (Verilog/SystemVerilog, Quartus, AXI/DDR) with software fluency in CMake, C#, JavaScript, and cloud tooling, allowing him to bridge firmware, drivers, and host-side tooling. Notably, he led a ground-up modern CMake rewrite that removed 2.5k lines of legacy Make code and has experience enabling hardware performance metrics and test infrastructure for new boards. Based in New York, he brings a practical research mindset from academic FPGA architecture work and a history of cross-disciplinary internships that accelerate bringing complex hardware designs to production.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Engineering, Bachelor's degree Engineering at National University of SingaporeOSSD, OSSD at University of Toronto SchoolsBachelor's degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering at University of Waterloo
English
Github Skills (60)
apl10
group-policy10
intel10
jupyter10
rendering10
cpu10
power-management10
trellis10
fpga10
verilog9
pytorch9
eda9
python9
placement9
curve-fitting9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
alainlou/website
May 2019 - Jan 2023
My personal website
Contributions:151 commits, 7 PRs, 202 pushes in 3 years 8 months
reactnextjs
alainlou/leetcode
Jun 2019 - Sep 2022
Contributions:210 pushes in 3 years 3 months
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