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Darshana Amarasingha

Researcher/ FPGA Designer At Research Center Jülich, Germany
102, Aachener Str, Niederzier

Summary

Skilled FPGA Architect with more than 3 years of experience in designing highly scalable next generation reconfigurable computer architectures (FPGA Based) for accelerating natural density spiking neural networks.

Further, Around 5 years of experience in designing state-of-the-art FPGA based, highly resilient,fault tolerant, hardware accelerated systems for Fintech industry.

More than 9 years of total experience in FPGA designs including software and linux device driver counterparts.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
3
3
Certifications
3
3
Languages

Work History

Research Assistant (Neuromorphic Computing, FPGA)

Research Center Julich
09.2019 - Current

Responsibilities

Playing a architect role in designing and developing disaggregated hyper-scale reconfigurable (FPGA) computer architecture to accelerate natural density spiking neural network simulation to accelerate human brain simulation experiments.

Company Profile

Research Center Juelich is a member of the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centers, it is one of the largest research institutions in Europe. https://www.fz-juelich.de

Senior Engineer - Control Systems

PBA Systems Pte Ltd
11.2018 - 08.2019

Company Profile:

Simplexity part of PBA Systems, designs and manufactures motion control products, including linear motor modules, Servo Drives, Customized industrial automation solutions.

http://www.pbasystems.com.sg/


Specialist Engineer - Hardware Accelerated Systems

London Stock Exchange Group, LSEG Technology (R&D)
03.2017 - 11.2018

Company Profile:

MillenniumIT part of LSEG technology is a technology solutions provider for the global capital markets industry and is a fully owned subsidiary of the London Stock Exchange Group.

https://www.lseg.com/markets-products-and-services/technology/lseg-technology


Senior Engineer - Hardware Accelerated Systems

LSEG Technology, Research and development
03.2015 - 03.2017

Company Website:

https://www.lseg.com

Engineer - Hardware Accelerated Systems

LSEG Technology, Research and development
02.2014 - 03.2015

Company Website:

https://www.lseg.com

Electronic Engineer - Intern

Airport And Aviation Services, Micro Lab,Bandaranaike International Airport
11.2012 - 02.2013

Company Profile:

Airport & Aviation Services (Sri Lanka) Limited presently shoulders the challenge of developing and managing four airports in Sri Lanka.

http://www.airport.lk

Education

Master of Science - Advance Software Engineering

University of Westminster
London, England
01.2016 - 2017.05

B.Eng (Hons) - Electronic Engineering

Sheffield Hallam University,Sheffield, England
01.2013 - 2013.05

Diploma - Electronic Engineering

Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology
Malabe, Sri Lanka
01.2010 - 2012.05

Ordinary Level, Advanced Level -

Bandaranayaka College
Gampaha, Sri Lanka
01.2002 - 2010.01

Skills

Programming Languages: Verilog, System Verilog, C, C, HLS, Java

FPGA Verification: Universal Verification Methodology (UVM) test bench designing and development, Functional/ Non functional test suite designing, Code coverage analysis

Digital System Designing: Advanced RTL design and verification practices

Linux Device Driver Development: Proficient knowledge in linux device drivers as well as Linux operating system

FPGA Partitioning and Partial Reconfiguration

Memory Controllers: In depth knowledge in FPGA base memory controllers (DDR4, RLDRAM3, QDR2)

PCIe Gen 1, Gen3: In depth knowledge in FPGA base PCIe transceivers and DMA Engines

High Frequency Trading Application : Well experience in designing FPGA base high frequency trading platform for top stock exchanges (London Stock Exchange, Turquoise, Borsa Italiana)

Object Oriented Programming: In depth knowledge in designing and developing high speed mission critical c base applications

Software Testing: Well experienced in developing Test Framework, Unit Tests, Regression Suites and Test Plans

Soft Embedded Processors: Experience in working with Altera nios ii soft embedded processor alone with Altera tool chain

Micro Controllers: Well experience in working with Microchip PIC and dsPIC micro controllers, Arm Cortex M3

Embedded system development: Experience in developing motion control and drive algorithm with Arm cortex A9 which is built in Altera cyclone 5 soc FPGA

Next generation interconnects fabrics: CXL, OpenCAPI, Extoll

Certification

Designing FPGAs Using the Vivado Design Suite 1

References

References available upon request.

Timeline

Research Assistant (Neuromorphic Computing, FPGA)

Research Center Julich
09.2019 - Current

Senior Engineer - Control Systems

PBA Systems Pte Ltd
11.2018 - 08.2019

Specialist Engineer - Hardware Accelerated Systems

London Stock Exchange Group, LSEG Technology (R&D)
03.2017 - 11.2018

Master of Science - Advance Software Engineering

University of Westminster
01.2016 - 2017.05

Senior Engineer - Hardware Accelerated Systems

LSEG Technology, Research and development
03.2015 - 03.2017

Engineer - Hardware Accelerated Systems

LSEG Technology, Research and development
02.2014 - 03.2015

B.Eng (Hons) - Electronic Engineering

Sheffield Hallam University,Sheffield, England
01.2013 - 2013.05

Electronic Engineer - Intern

Airport And Aviation Services, Micro Lab,Bandaranaike International Airport
11.2012 - 02.2013

Diploma - Electronic Engineering

Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology
01.2010 - 2012.05

Ordinary Level, Advanced Level -

Bandaranayaka College
01.2002 - 2010.01
Darshana AmarasinghaResearcher/ FPGA Designer At Research Center Jülich, Germany