Dawood Alnajjar
Senior Embedded Systems Software Engineer at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Menlo Park, California, United States
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Top SchoolDawood Alnajjar is a Senior Embedded Systems Software Engineer based in Menlo Park with a PhD-level background and over 15 years of international experience designing and shipping FPGA-accelerated control systems and high-speed area detectors. He currently develops FPGA, embedded software, and EPICS drivers for SLAC’s high-speed ePix detectors and has led architecture and FPGA/SoC software efforts for Sirius, one of the world’s most advanced synchrotron light sources. His technical breadth spans VHDL/Verilog and SystemVerilog verification, FPGA prototyping, high-throughput RDMA-based data paths, CUDA/OpenMP image pipelines, and embedded Linux/NI real-time ecosystems. Dawood also mentors junior engineers, authors white papers and conference publications, and has repeatedly turned complex hardware protocols into production-grade control infrastructures. A not-obvious strength: he blends deep academic research experience with hands-on firmware, driver, and systems engineering across global lab and industry settings.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Information Systems Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Information Systems Engineering at Osaka UniversityB.Sc. Computer Engineering, B.Sc. Computer Engineering at University of Jordan
English, Arabic, Spanish, Japanese, Portuguese
Github Skills (21)
lattice10
vhdl10
asic10
fpga10
hdl10
python9
firmware9
dub6
vivado6
vms6
streaming5
kernel5
makefile5
multicore5
non-blocking5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
slaclab/epix-hr-m-320k
Apr 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:24 releases, 15 PRs, 216 pushes in 11 months
slaclab/llrfAmc
Apr 2024 - Jan 2025
LLRF AMC Card Low Level Driver
Contributions:1 release, 4 PRs, 10 pushes in 8 months
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