Felipe Garay
Software Engineer at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFelipe Garay is a software engineer based in Mountain View with 13 years of experience spanning R&D, research, and production systems, currently building distributed systems and agentic chip design at Google. He holds a Master in Computer Science and has hands-on expertise in EDA tools—contributing an OpenROAD DFT implementation and creating an MCP server to expose OpenROAD to internal agents—alongside prior work on Synopsys Design Compiler. Felipe has a strong research background in Delay Tolerant Networks, cutting wireless energy use by 90% in simulations, and has lectured computer architecture to large undergraduate cohorts while advising capstone projects. He combines low-level systems skills (C/C++, Tcl, Verilog) with practical open-source contributions and experience scaling package-registry analysis tools during an INRIA internship, reflecting a blend of academic rigor and production engineering.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Escuela de Verano: Computación I, Escuela de Verano: Computación I at Universidad de ChileMaster of Computer Science, Computer Science, Master of Computer Science, Computer Science at Universidad de Santiago de Chile
Spanish, English
Github Skills (5)
cpp10
eda10
rt9
verilog8
tcl7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
The-OpenROAD-Project/OpenROAD
Jan 2023 - Jan 2023
OpenROAD's unified application implementing an RTL-to-GDS Flow. Documentation at https://openroad.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:86 reviews, 16 commits, 42 PRs in 12 days
Contributions summary:Felipe primarily contributed to the development of a new DFT (Design-for-Test) tool within the OpenROAD project. Their work involved creating the initial structure, including source files, header files, and a Tcl script. They also made code changes to integrate the DFT tool into the main OpenROAD codebase and made improvements to prevent warnings about unneeded copies in for loops.
opendb-databasertlcppgdstcl
fgaray/OpenROAD
Jan 2023 - Feb 2025
OpenROAD's unified application implementing an RTL-to-GDS Flow. Documentation at https://openroad.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Contributions:181 pushes, 52 branches in 2 years 1 month
rtlreadthedocsgdsopenroad
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