Summary
Alexandr Smirnov is a PhD-trained electronics engineer with 10 years’ experience designing and validating FPGA and mixed-signal systems, spanning RTL-to-hardware bring-up and PCB layout. He combines deep DSP expertise (multi-rate filters, DDS, CORDIC, FFT, I/Q mixers) with hands-on FPGA toolflow knowledge (Quartus, QuestaSim, Verilog/SystemVerilog) and practical fixed-point algorithm implementation. Alexandr has shipped medical and display-front-end designs—256-channel AFE and TFT-LCD gate-driver integrations—while owning PCB schematic/layout using Cadence OrCAD/Allegro. He has held senior FPGA and lead electronics roles across companies, currently contributing as an Elektronikingenieur and FPGA designer in Germany. Notably, his background in military-grade digital signal processing research informs robust verification and hardware bring-up practices uncommon in commercial teams. He also explores embedded virtualization on GitHub, bridging low-level firmware with high-performance hardware design.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Digital Signal processing, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Digital Signal processing at Military Communications Academy