Summary
Clarity Shimoniak is a pragmatic software engineer with 12 years of hands-on experience building and optimizing embedded and FPGA-heavy systems, currently contributing to safety-critical avionics at Garmin. She excels at modernizing legacy firmware and test infrastructure—bringing legacy GNSS code and VHDL flows up to contemporary standards while improving build speed and repeatability. Her background spans C++, Kotlin, Verilog/VHDL, and tooling that bridges firmware, FPGA, and automated testing, informed by MS and BS degrees in Computer Engineering from UC Riverside. She pairs a researcher’s curiosity (exploring side-channel and analog effects on FPGAs) with a preference for elegant, resource-efficient solutions, often finding unexpected optimizations that yield outsized gains. Based in Salem, Oregon, she enjoys turning complex, safety-conscious requirements into auditable, high-performance implementations.
12 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Computer Engineering at University of California, Riverside
Spanish, English, Ukrainian