Soren Soe
Distinguished Engineer at Xilinx
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSoren Soe is a Distinguished Engineer at Xilinx in San Jose, leading software architecture for heterogeneous hardware-accelerated platforms and contributing to the Xilinx Runtime (XRT) software stack. With a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering and decades of experience across algorithms for logic synthesis, CPLD tools, Vivado Tcl infrastructure, and embedded kernel drivers, he blends deep systems research with pragmatic engineering. He is passionate about C++ design and building efficient, high-quality code, and he routinely mentors engineers to raise code and design standards. Soren’s work uniquely spans both hardware IP teams and user-space libraries for FPGA acceleration, giving him a rare cross-domain perspective on system-level optimization. Known for tackling low-level performance and integration challenges, he combines academic rigor with production-focused delivery.
7 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
University of California Santa CruzTechnical University of Denmark
Github Skills (31)
xilinx10
linux-kernel10
vitis10
fpga10
elf7
fusion6
pe-analyzer6
internals6
c-library5
cpp5
producer5
wake-on-lan5
effort5
reader5
cpp-library5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
stsoe/xrt-playground
Dec 2021 - Mar 2025
Xilinx/XRT copy for experimentation
Contributions:19 PRs, 27 pushes, 10 branches in 3 years 3 months
xilinxexperimentationxrt
stsoe/playground
Nov 2020 - Mar 2025
Contributions:17 PRs, 151 pushes, 12 branches in 4 years 4 months
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