Usman Ayub
Associate Engineer
Islamabad, Islamabad Capital Territory, Pakistan
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Top SchoolUsman Ayub is an associate engineer with 11 years of experience focused on bringing AI to resource-constrained edge devices by designing low-power NPUs and RISC-V accelerators and rigorously verifying their correctness. He specializes in SystemVerilog/UVM-based testbenches and AXI4 protocol validation, having driven verification sign-off efforts and closed extensive Synopsys covergroups in complex crossbar IP. At Xcelerium he combines hands-on RTL testing with automation using Python and Tcl, and manages workflows with GitLab and Jira to deliver reusable, production-grade verification environments. His background bridges embedded systems design and machine learning inference optimization, enabling real-time intelligence for IoT and autonomous systems. Based in Islamabad, he pairs academic foundations from NUST with practical industry impact, and he’s also engaged in robotics and cognitive-science–informed ML work beyond chip design. Notably, he moves seamlessly between architectural design and detailed verification, ensuring accelerators meet both performance and functional-coverage goals.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Electrical and Electronics Engineering at National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST)
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Github Skills (27)
feature-extraction9
pattern-recognition9
pattern9
classify9
brain-computer-interface9
audio-effect8
digital-signal-processing8
signal-processing8
text-editor8
python7
netscape6
virtualenvwrapper6
virtualenv6
signal6
setuptools6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
usmanayubsh/2048
Nov 2014 - Feb 2015
Contributions:53 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 3 months
usmanayubsh/pyTerm
Mar 2016 - Apr 2018
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
terminalpythonlinuxcli
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