Marwan Abbas
Co-Founder & Head Of Product at NativeChips.ai
6th of October, Giza, Egypt
Summary
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Top SchoolMarwan Abbas is a product and engineering leader who builds bridges between silicon, AI, and software, combining six years of hands-on hardware design and EDA experience with startup product strategy. As Co-Founder and Head of Product at NativeChips.ai and Head of Customer Engineering at ChipFoundry, he shapes product vision, customer experience, and go-to-market partnerships to make specialized silicon and AI tools accessible. At Efabless he progressed from IC/EDA developer to field applications, improving RTL-to-GDSII automation and contributing to the widely used OpenLane flow and Caravel testbench integrations. He excels at translating low-level technical constraints—timing, placement, toolchains—into scalable developer-facing products that accelerate innovation for startups and enterprises. Based in 6th of October, Egypt, he combines deep technical fluency with a knack for practical productization that empowers engineering teams to ship complex compute solutions.
5 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
exchange year, Computer Engineering, exchange year, Computer Engineering at Virginia TechBachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering at The American University in Cairo
English, Arabic
Github Skills (24)
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vlsi10
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automation10
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embedded10
automations10
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
efabless/caravel_user_project
Jan 2022 - Nov 2022
https://caravel-user-project.readthedocs.io
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer
Embedded Systems EngineerContributions:38 reviews, 89 commits, 66 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Marwan primarily contributes to the integration of a Litex testbench with the Caravel user project, with a focus on testing the logic analyzer (LA) and wishbone (WB) port functionality. The commits include modifications to the testbench files (e.g., la_test1_tb.v, wb_port_tb.v, io_ports_tb.v, mprj_stimulus_tb.v), as well as the associated C code for the WB port functionality, indicating a focus on hardware interaction and testing. The user also updates documentation related to the roundtrip process and quickstart guide.
laravelcaravelpythonreadthedocs
The-OpenROAD-Project/OpenLane
Aug 2021 - Jul 2022
OpenLane is an automated RTL to GDSII flow based on several components including OpenROAD, Yosys, Magic, Netgen and custom methodology scripts for design exploration and optimization.
Role in this project:Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:9 reviews, 7 commits, 10 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Marwan focused on improving and maintaining the automated build and report generation flow for the OpenLane project. Their commits primarily involved modifying scripts, specifically `report.sh` and `report_parser.py`, to generate reports related to static timing analysis, routing, and placement. Further commits addressed improvements and fixes to OpenROAD toolchain scripts and configurations, refining the overall RTL to GDSII flow.
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