Björn Gottschall
Senior FPGA Engineer at Arm
Trondheim, Trøndelag, Norway
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Top SchoolBjörn Gottschall is a Senior FPGA Engineer with nine years of experience bridging academia and industry, currently at Arm after completing a PhD in Computer Science at NTNU. He specializes in reconfigurable computing and performance analysis, bringing deep hardware-software co-design expertise honed during a doctoral program and an internship at Xilinx. His background includes both research-grade FPGA prototyping and production-focused software engineering, enabling pragmatic solutions that optimize performance on real hardware. Trained in Germany (Diplom, TU Dresden) and seasoned in Norway, he combines rigorous theoretical grounding with hands-on implementation experience across the full FPGA toolchain. An understated strength is his ability to translate complex performance insights from research into concrete, deployable optimizations in commercial environments.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom-Informatiker Computer Science, Diplom-Informatiker Computer Science at Technische Universität DresdenNorwegian University of Science and Technology
Github Skills (88)
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
bgottschall/plotgen
Aug 2021 - Mar 2023
Parse data and generate plotting scripts based on plotly.
Contributions:3 releases, 59 commits, 80 pushes in 1 year 6 months
plotly
EECS-NTNU/firesim
Aug 2020 - Jun 2023
FireSim: Easy-to-use, Scalable, FPGA-accelerated Cycle-accurate Hardware Simulation in the Cloud
Contributions:2 PRs, 118 pushes, 12 branches in 2 years 10 months
fpgahardwaresimulation
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