Antoine Madec
Director - Silicon Verification
Rennes, Brittany, France
Summary
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Top SchoolAntoine Madec is a silicon verification leader with 10+ years of experience advancing ASIC and emulation flows across startups and established vendors, currently directing Silicon Verification at Axelera AI from Rennes, France. He combines hands-on expertise building UVM-based verification environments, emulation bring-up (Palladium/Z1, Veloce), and performance/regression automation with people leadership—having led teams of 11 and managed hiring and training. His background spans protocol and memory controller verification, security-focused top-level checks (ECC/EDC, ASIL), and FPGA bitstream tooling, reflecting a pragmatic blend of verification, software tooling, and system integration. An active contributor to developer tools, he has fixed bugs and added features to a popular Vim multiple-cursors plugin, showing curiosity for clean code and developer ergonomics beyond hardware. He routinely bridges customer-facing roles and R&D, making him effective at translating complex verification needs into repeatable, production-grade flows.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer’s Degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Engineer’s Degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at ENSEIRB-MATMECA - Bordeaux INPMaster’s Degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Master’s Degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology
English, French, German
Github Skills (3)
debug10
vimscript10
testing10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
terryma/vim-multiple-cursors
Oct 2018 - Jul 2020
True Sublime Text style multiple selections for Vim
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 28 PRs, 23 pushes in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Antoine contributed to the Vim plugin by fixing bugs and implementing new features. They addressed issues related to cursor updates, deletion at the end of lines, and insert mapping behaviors. Furthermore, the user added support for new normal mode commands and refined insert mapping functionality, including handling multi-character mappings and expression mappings. The contributions also involved writing and updating tests.
vimsublimetext-styleselectionssublime-text
antoinemadec/test
Jun 2017 - Aug 2024
Small tests and tutorials.
Contributions:2 PRs, 203 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 3 months
testing
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