Summary
Mohamed Bamakhrama is a Principal HW System Architect with 14+ years translating PhD-level research into commercial high-performance real-time and secure embedded systems. He has led accelerator and combo-chip architectures at Renesas, developed NPU reference and fast-performance models at Synopsys, and prototyped GPU-accelerated solutions for EUV lithography at ASML. Deeply versed in computer architecture, HW acceleration, cryptography and protocol design, he pairs system-level modeling (SystemC/HLS) with hands-on DSP and FPGA implementation experience. An open-source hardware and EDA enthusiast, he contributes to the ecosystem beyond product work, blending academic rigor from Leiden University with industry impact across semiconductor leaders. Notably, he has driven both IP-level designs (MIPI UniPro, DSP cores) and system integration for connectivity and audio silicon, showing a rare end-to-end hardware-software perspective.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at Leiden University
Master of Science - MS, Comp. Science and Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Comp. Science and Engineering at Technical University of Munich
B.Sc. (honors), Computer Engineering, B.Sc. (honors), Computer Engineering at University of Sharjah
Arabic, English, Dutch