Fawaz T
Firmware Engineer at Rivos Inc.
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFawaz T is a firmware engineer based in San Francisco with eight years of hands-on experience bridging systems-level programming and digital design. He holds dual degrees in Computer Engineering and Economics from UIUC and brings practical firmware expertise from his current role at Rivos Inc. and prior internships at Amazon, CACI, and Edward Jones. His background includes research work on auditory augmentation and teaching as a course assistant, signaling both curiosity and an ability to communicate complex technical concepts. Comfortable across hardware-adjacent firmware stacks and software engineering, he specializes in turning low-level design into reliable embedded systems. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who pairs academic rigor with production-focused delivery.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Economics, Bachelor's degree, Economics at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Urdu, English
Github Skills (36)
lint10
rust10
wrapper10
lang9
api9
compiler9
standard-library8
codegen8
protected8
rust-lang8
linter8
crate7
clippy7
jit7
rust-language7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
rivosinc/inkwell
Mar 2023 - Nov 2023
It's a New Kind of Wrapper for Exposing LLVM (Safely)
Contributions:3 PRs, 28 pushes, 3 branches in 8 months
FawazTirmizi/riscv-semihosting
Jul 2022 - Oct 2022
Semihosting for RISCV processors
Contributions:4 PRs, 26 pushes, 10 branches in 3 months
risc-vriscvprocessors
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