Saied Khayat
Silicon Validation Senior Harware Engineer
Cupertino, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSaied Khayat is a Silicon Validation Senior Hardware Engineer with 10 years of hands-on experience designing and validating complex hardware for consumer, automotive, and enterprise systems. He has led end-to-end hardware and FPGA architecture from his first-hire role at a photonic LIDAR startup to senior engineering positions at Marvell and now Apple, specializing in multi-channel high-speed data converters, SOC integration, and board-level validation. His background spans academia and industry—from a PhD in electrical engineering and teaching digital systems to shipping production-ready SSD and LIDAR platforms—bringing both deep theory and practical production experience. Known for bridging analog front-ends, photonics, and digital FPGA/RTL flows, he focuses on building hardware that tangibly improves people’s lives.
10 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, MSc, Ph.D., Electrical Engineering at Washington University in St. LouisBachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Shiraz University, Iran
Github Skills (1)
cpp2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
saiedhk/GaloisCPP
Sep 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:11 commits, 9 pushes, 2 branches in 5 months
saiedhk/FractionCPP
Feb 2016 - Feb 2016
C++ Fractional Arithmetic Library with Overflow Checking
Contributions:7 commits, 5 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
arithmeticfractionalcppc-plus-pluschecking
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