Vladimir Rožić
SoC Design Engineer at Fortaegis Technologies
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolVladimir Rožić is a SoC design engineer with five years of hands-on experience in hardware security, digital design, FPGA and ASIC development, now based in Amsterdam. He holds a PhD in Engineering Science from KU Leuven and has co-authored 30 scientific papers, blending deep research expertise with practical product deliveries. At lowRISC he contributed to the high-profile OpenTitan open-source root-of-trust project, adding an OTBN instruction counter, improving RNGs, and expanding test coverage and documentation. Currently at Fortaegis Technologies, he focuses on bringing secure silicon features from prototype to production. His background combines long-term academic research with pragmatic open-source engineering—a profile that surfaces both theoretical rigor and production-ready implementation skills.
5 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Engineering Science - Electrical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Engineering Science - Electrical Engineering at COSIC (KU Leuven)Bachelor of Science - BS Electical Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Electical Engineering at University of Belgrade
Github Skills (10)
embedded10
verilog10
rtl-design10
systemverilog10
sys10
hardware-security-module9
unit-testing8
architectures7
architecture7
system7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
lowRISC/opentitan
May 2021 - Dec 2022
OpenTitan: Open source silicon root of trust
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer
Embedded Systems EngineerContributions:237 reviews, 29 commits, 56 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Vladimir primarily contributed to the OpenTitan project by implementing and integrating a 32-bit instruction counter for the OpenTitan project's OTBN (OpenTitan Block for Number processing) module. This involved modifying several RTL files to add the counter, its register interface, and related control logic within the OTBN core and controller. The user also added unit tests and smoke tests to verify the functionality of the instruction counter. Additionally, the user has improved documentation and replaced the existing PRNG with xoshiro256pp and added secure wipe feature to the OTBN module.
root-of-trustrootsilicontrust
vrozic/ot-sca
Mar 2022 - Apr 2024
Side-channel analysis setup for OpenTitan
Contributions:224 pushes, 43 branches in 2 years
side-channel
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