Nir Cohen
Post Silicon Validation Engineer
Haifa, Haifa District, Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolNir Cohen is a Post Silicon Validation Engineer at Intel with 10 years of experience bridging hardware and software in complex VLSI systems. He holds a B.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Ben-Gurion University with a specialization in VLSI and optoelectronics, and applies that foundation to validate silicon behavior and performance in real-world workloads. Nir contributes to open-source tooling for device pipelines—adding extensive logging and performance-focused diagnostics to the widely used Intel RealSense SDK—highlighting a pragmatic focus on observability and bottleneck resolution. Based in Haifa, he blends low-level system insight with backend development skills to accelerate root-cause analysis and improve firmware-to-application interactions.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science - BSc, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BSc, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Github Skills (8)
ls10
debugging10
c-language10
lib10
performance-monitoring10
cprogramming-language10
sdk9
computer-vision9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
realsenseai/librealsense
Jun 2016 - Jan 2017
RealSense SDK
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:41 commits, 1 PR in 6 months
Contributions summary:Nir implemented and added extensive logging messages throughout the device initialization and frame processing pipeline. These changes involved modifications to the `src/device.cpp`, `src/archive.cpp`, and `src/archive.h` files, indicating a focus on debugging and performance monitoring within the Intel RealSense SDK. The logging enhancements likely aimed to improve the tracking and analysis of frame handling and callback durations, contributing to a better understanding of the system's behavior. This work included identifying and addressing potential performance bottlenecks related to frame callbacks.
realsenselibrealsensedeveloper-kitssdkcamera-api
cohennir/librealsense
Nov 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
cameraintelcross-platformrealsenseintel-realsense
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