Faisal Shah
Principal Advisor R&D Electrical Engineer at Halliburton
Houston, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFaisal Shah is a Principal R&D Electrical Engineer with 8+ years of hands-on experience leading multidisciplinary teams to deliver high-reliability, extreme-environment downhole systems. He combines deep technical expertise in embedded systems, DSP, VHDL, and power/communications design with a talent for turning feasibility studies into commercial products—often by inventing novel simulation and hardware-in-the-loop tools that accelerated verification. Known for pragmatic leadership and stakeholder influence, he has driven radical cost and schedule improvements (including a ~40% tool cost reduction) and personally designed OFDM-based PLC modems, FPGA HIL simulators, and real-time firmware stacks. Based in Houston, he pairs systems-level thinking with empathy for collaborators, surfacing motivations and incentives to get “impossible” cross-functional programs over the finish line.
8 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Electrical Engineering, Masters Electrical Engineering at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBurhan College
Github Skills (70)
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
faisal-shah/dotfiles
Sep 2018 - May 2022
Contributions:92 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 8 months
faisal-shah/ChibiOS.svn
Dec 2021 - Feb 2024
Mirror of ChibiOS svn repository
Contributions:99 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 2 months
svnchibios
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