Mohamed Gaber
Contract EDA Engineer at Silimate (YC S23)
Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
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Top SchoolMohamed Gaber is a contract EDA engineer with a decade of experience building and maintaining open-source RTL-to-ASIC flows and CI infrastructure, currently working with Silimate and the FOSSi Foundation in Cairo. He is a primary maintainer of LibreLane and Ciel PDK management tools, and previously led OpenLane/OpenLane2 development at Efabless, contributing DevOps expertise to the widely used OpenROAD/OpenLane automated flow. Mohamed combines deep EDA tooling knowledge with practical DevOps skills—restructuring CI, automating Docker builds, and ensuring reliable artifact testing and deployment for production tape-outs. His background spans research, platform development (Cloud V), and full-stack EDA work, reflecting both academic rigor (AUC, 3.83 GPA) and production-grade shipping. Colleagues will notice his focus on making ASIC design exceptionally accessible to communities via Tiny Tapeout and other low-cost tape-out services.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Engineering, 3.83, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Engineering, 3.83 at The American University in Cairo
English, Arabic
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Github Skills (14)
automation10
github-ci10
script10
docker10
bash10
automations10
githubaction-workflow10
containerization10
build-automation10
dockers10
cicd10
testing9
makefile8
python8
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
The-OpenROAD-Project/OpenLane
Apr 2021 - Jan 2023
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:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:1 release, 524 reviews, 233 commits in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Mohamed primarily focused on enhancing and maintaining the continuous integration (CI) pipeline and build processes within the OpenLane repository. Their contributions included restructuring the CI workflow, setting up and automating the build process of Docker images for OpenLane, and integrating tools for artifact management and testing. They were responsible for ensuring the reliability of the build system and addressing issues related to test execution and artifact deployment.
rtlfoundrymagicmethodologyvlsi
efabless/nix-eda
May 2024 - Apr 2025
Nix derivations for EDA tools
Contributions:1 review, 14 PRs, 54 pushes in 10 months
edaelectronic-design-automationnixnix-flake
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