Vadim Akimov
ASIC Digital Design, Staff Engineer at Synopsys Inc
Eindhoven, North Brabant, Netherlands
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Top SchoolVadim Akimov is an ASIC digital design staff engineer with a decade of hands-on experience building peripheral controllers for general-purpose CPUs, currently at Synopsys after a long tenure leading hardware design at MCST. He architects full IP lifecycles—from specifications and microarchitecture to RTL (Verilog/SystemVerilog), validation and silicon-ready debug—and has shipped production 10G Ethernet NICs and multi-generation 2D video controllers used in Elbrus SoCs and FPGA PCIe cards. Vadim blends practical system-level thinking with low-level coding and scripting (C, Python, Linux), enabling tightly integrated hardware-software solutions and tooling for complex IPs. He has a track record of mentoring students to deliver production-grade controllers (including BCH-equipped NAND prototypes) and bringing research rigor from an early career in laser physics to commercial ASIC development. Based in Eindhoven, he pairs a strong applied-math background (MIPT) with a rare combination of peripheral IP breadth and delivery experience across both FPGA products and SoC integrations.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Applied Mathematics, Master's degree, Applied Mathematics at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) (MIPT)
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Github Skills (6)
ctf-platform5
server4
ctf4
security3
cybersecurity2
php1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
SIMFORdev/simfor
Sep 2023 - Jun 2024
Contributions:3 releases, 27 PRs, 26 pushes in 9 months
vadim8960/MathMatrix
Dec 2020 - Mar 2021
Contributions:22 PRs, 54 pushes, 18 branches in 3 months
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