Osaze Shears
FPGA Design Engineer at Reliable Robotics Corporation
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolOsaze Shears is an FPGA and ASIC-focused design engineer with 12 years of experience building and verifying complex SoCs, high-throughput hardware accelerators, and prototyping platforms across industry and research. He has driven SystemVerilog/ UVM verification, HLS accelerator implementations, and top-level SoC integration for projects ranging from homomorphic-encryption ASICs to heterogenous FPGA-GPU object-tracking systems. Currently at Reliable Robotics after a senior engineering role at USC ISI and graduate research at Virginia Tech’s MICS lab, he blends hands-on FPGA toolchain automation with low-power neuromorphic and spiking neural network research. An experienced mentor and tutor, Osaze has spent years teaching and guiding students while also collaborating on emulation and production validation efforts like HAPS and VCU/VCU128 platforms. Based in Mountain View, he pairs deep hardware verification expertise with a practical focus on secure supply-chain and runtime considerations that often go unnoticed in design work.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Engineering, Master of Science - MS Computer Engineering at Virginia TechBachelor's degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering at George Mason UniversityHigh School Diploma Technology, High School Diploma Technology at Appomattox Regional Governor's School
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Github Skills (22)
vivado7
segmentation7
xilinx7
fpga7
visual-recognition7
computer-vision6
swift6
ios-simulator6
xcode6
face-recognition6
face-detection6
ios6
object-detection5
deep-learning5
inference3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
oshears/STEP-App
Mar 2015 - Jun 2016
Contributions:61 commits, 57 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
oshears/fpga_snn_models
Dec 2020 - Mar 2021
Contributions:33 commits, 32 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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