Maikon Nascimento
FPGA Engineer at Kappa optronics GmbH
Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany
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Top SchoolMaikon Nascimento is an FPGA engineer with over a decade of experience designing high-performance embedded imaging systems for aerospace, automotive, and defense. He holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering and currently leads FPGA development at Kappa Optronics, delivering Sony-based multi-stream video pipelines, CameraLink/SDI outputs, and Xilinx Kria SoC integrations. His depth spans RTL development, ISP algorithms (BLC, DPC, tone mapping), high-speed SerDes and interfaces, and DO-254-compliant validation and documentation. Comfortable bridging hardware and firmware, he routinely debugs embedded Linux and collaborates with microcontroller teams to resolve cross-domain issues. Known for juggling multiple concurrent projects, he publishes on parallel processing and pursues hands-on hobby work with ESP32 and Raspberry Pi that inform pragmatic, low-power design choices. Based in Göttingen, Germany, he combines academic rigor with operational delivery on mission-critical imaging platforms.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of AlbertaElectrical Engineer Engineer, Electrical Engineer Engineer at Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina
Portuguese, English, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (36)
xilinx7
fpga6
data-visualization6
driver6
serve6
fabric6
device-driver6
device-tree6
sse6
irq6
interrupt-handling6
buffer6
forge6
assembly6
ffmpeg6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
maikonadams/fpgaip
Mar 2018 - Jan 2022
Contributions:23 commits, 17 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 10 months
maikonadams/android
Aug 2015 - Jan 2021
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 5 months
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