Amal Khailtash is a Senior Member of Technical Staff with 14+ years designing and verifying high-performance ASICs and FPGAs, currently contributing at AMD after a long tenure at Ciena. He blends deep RTL expertise (VHDL, Verilog, SystemVerilog, SystemC) with prolific application and tooling skills across C/C++, Python, Tcl, and .NET, enabling end-to-end hardware-software verification flows. Amal’s background spans networking, telecom, and video semiconductor domains, delivering production silicon and verification environments from concept to tapeout. Practically minded and language-agnostic, he’s as comfortable implementing low-level RTL as building the automation that makes teams productive. Based in the Ottawa area, he pairs an M.A.Sc. in Electrical Engineering with a track record of multi-company impact across North American semiconductor firms.
14 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering Electrical Engineering/Hardware, Bachelor of Engineering Electrical Engineering/Hardware at University of Applied Science and Technology
M.A.Sc. Electrical Engineering, M.A.Sc. Electrical Engineering at Concordia University
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Amal Khailtash - Senior Member Of Technical Staff at AMD