Mehmet Yildiz
Software Eng. Grp. Director at Cadence Design Systems
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMehmet Yildiz is a seasoned software engineering leader with over two decades of experience in physical design and routing, currently directing clock routing and preroute routing teams at Cadence in Austin. He combines deep research pedigree—a Ph.D. in VLSI physical design algorithms—with hands-on architecture and tool-building, having led portable preroute congestion and timing estimation efforts and earlier R&D at Synopsys, Magma, IBM, and Intel. Known for balancing algorithmic rigor with production performance, he focuses on congestion, timing correlation, and balanced clock-tree synthesis at scale. An advocate for practical accessibility, he also contributes to open-source localization (notably translating airgeddon into Turkish), reflecting a willingness to improve tools beyond core engineering. Despite a dry quip on GitHub that "security is a myth," his career shows disciplined attention to robustness and optimization in mission-critical EDA software.
8 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Engineering, B.S., Computer Engineering at Marmara Üniversitesi / Marmara UniversityPh.D., Algorithms for VLSI PD, Ph.D., Algorithms for VLSI PD at Binghamton UniversityM.S., Information and Computer Science, M.S., Information and Computer Science at Yeditepe University
Github Skills (7)
bash10
localization10
translation10
scripting9
shell9
script9
sh9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
v1s1t0r1sh3r3/airgeddon
Jun 2018 - Sep 2022
This is a multi-use bash script for Linux systems to audit wireless networks.
Role in this project:
Localization / Internationalization Specialist
Localization / Internationalization SpecialistContributions:14 commits, 2 PRs, 33 pushes in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Mehmet primarily contributed to the localization efforts of the project, translating various text strings within the `language_strings.sh` file. Their work involved adding and modifying Turkish translations for different UI elements, error messages, and informational text. These contributions demonstrate a focus on expanding the project's accessibility to a wider audience by supporting multiple languages.
bashlinuxwirelessevil-twinwps
UN5T48L3/UN5T48L3-kitap-listesi-reactjs
Jul 2018 - May 2021
reactjs book storage
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
react
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