David Castells-rufas
Visitor at UAB - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Greater Barcelona Metropolitan Area Spain
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Top SchoolDavid Castells-rufas is a seasoned systems designer and programmer with 11 years of professional experience and a PhD in Reconfigurable Hardware, currently serving as a Visitor at Barcelona Supercomputing Center and a Tenure Track Professor at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. He has led the Embedded Systems Group at UAB, founded two tech companies, and blends academic research with practical hardware and system-software design expertise, especially in high-level hardware description languages. Comfortable moving between research, teaching, and project leadership, he has a track record of translating advanced hardware concepts into deployable systems for both industry and academia. Based in the Greater Barcelona area, he brings a rare combination of entrepreneurial experience and deep technical specialization in reconfigurable and embedded platforms.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Reconfigurable Hardware, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Reconfigurable Hardware at Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaGraduate, Computer Science, Graduate, Computer Science at University College CorkACACES
English, Catalan, Spanish
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Github Skills (79)
verilog10
spike10
fpga9
simulator9
risc9
hardware9
hdl9
python8
computer-architecture8
risc-v8
optuna5
benchmark5
telecommunication5
feature-selection5
dac4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
davidcastells/py4hw
Apr 2021 - Jan 2023
Hardware Design/Visualization/Simulation/RTLGeneration Framework
Contributions:6 reviews, 382 commits, 12 PRs in 1 year 9 months
fpgahardwarehdljupyter-notebookspython
davidcastells/AlteraOpenCLPCIDriver
Jan 2018 - Jun 2022
Contributions:17 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
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