Sam Bobrowicz
Senior Software Development Engineer - CPLD FPGA at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
North Bend, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Bobrowicz is a Senior Software Development Engineer specializing in CPLD/FPGA design and ARM-based embedded Linux with 11 years of hands-on experience across product, consulting, and cloud hardware teams. He currently builds FPGA/CPLD solutions at AWS and previously led applications and systems engineering at Digilent, where he bridged documentation, demos, and customer-facing embedded systems work. Sam’s strengths span low-level IP/core development (notably contributions to Digilent’s Vivado library improving DVI/EDID support and dynamic clock placement) through system integration for robotics, computer vision, and high-speed interfaces. Comfortable in both short- and long-term engagements, he blends academic rigor from dual studies in neuroscience and computer engineering with practical lab experience, including early work in biological imaging and data analysis. Known for shipping usable reference designs and clear documentation, he thrives on taking FPGA projects from prototype to deployed system.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Tacoma Community CollegeNeuroscience and Computer Engineering, Neuroscience and Computer Engineering at Washington State University
Github Skills (9)
fpga10
verilog10
embedded10
vivado10
systemverilog10
sys10
tcl8
ax7
axi47
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Digilent/vivado-library
Jan 2016 - May 2017
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 8 pushes, 9 comments in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Sam primarily contributed to the Digilent Vivado library by adding and modifying IP cores, focusing on display-related functionalities. They enhanced the dvi2rgb core with support for multiple EDID configurations, improving display compatibility. Furthermore, the user introduced a BUFMR option in the axi_dynclk core, improving the ability to position the MMCM, and updated the PmodMTDS driver by adding examples and documentation, reflecting embedded systems integration expertise.
Digilent/ZYBO
Nov 2015 - Jun 2016
Contributions:24 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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