John Samir
Software Engineering Lead
Summary
Experienced software engineer with more than 7 years of programming and application development experience with various languages and environments especially in C++. Worked in various business domains such as 5G, Wi-Fi, and Ethernet verification.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Languages
Work History
Team Lead
Siemens EDA
01.2022 - Current
- Leading a team involved in verification for 5G O-RU/O-DU designs
- Our goal is to deliver premier networking companies a state-of-the-art networking software solution for verifying designs using emulation before production
- Areas of expertise:
- 5GNR technologies according to the 3GPP standard
- Cellular protocols (e.g
- PHY, MAC, RLC, RRC, NAS, etc.)
- Communication system theory and PHY signal processing
- 5G Fronthaul protocols and methodologies
- O-RAN and RAN virtualization concepts
Technical Lead
Mentor Graphics
01.2021 - 12.2021
Senior Software Development Engineer
Mentor Graphics
03.2018 - 12.2020
- Develop software (mainly in C++) to compile and run under different platforms
- Analyze problems and locate bottlenecks across different applications
- Contribute defining Test Automation Strategy to implement automation of manual testing tasks
- Create framework for automated test cases
- Design, develop from scratch or enhance existing software
- Abide coding standards and apply unit testing
- Implement and manage automated testing integration
- Identify failures to meet quality standards
- Write professional Functional Specs and Design Documentation
- Run regression and identify positive failures
- Document clearly my work and contribute to User Guide / Release Notes authoring
- Communicate effectively with customers¹ issues
- Troubleshoot with product team members to resolve reported issues from field
- Technical Environment: C++, Verilog, Object Oriented Programming, Structured and Layered Programming, Software Architecture, STL, Wx Widgets, Qt GUI, Design Patterns, gdb Debugging, Tcl Scripting, Bash Scripting, Linux, SVN, GIT, ClearCase, Mantis, Jira, Confluence, doxygen
Software Development Engineer
Mentor Graphics
03.2016 - 02.2018
Software Development Engineer
Egyptian Armed Forces
06.2015 - 03.2016
- Company Overview: air forces research and development division
- Develop the embedded software needed in an encryption project
- Build, maintain and test GUI applications to facilitate dealing with the encryption unit
- Air forces research and development division
Education
Diploma - Embedded Systems
AMIT-learning
09.2014 - 12.2014
Bachelor of Science - Electronics and Electrical Communications Engineering
Cairo University
01.2009 - 01.2014
Skills
- C/C
- Java
- Object oriented programming
- Data structures
- VHDL
- Verilog
- SystemVerilog
- Bash
- TCL
- Python
- Wx widgets
- Qt
- SVN
- GIT
- gdb
- Jira
- Confluence
- Linux OS
- SUSE
- Redhat
- Centos
- Ubuntu
- MYSQL
- MongoDB
- MATLAB
- Software design patterns
- Digital design concepts
- Business requirement analysis
- System components architecture
- System specification
- System design documentation
- Systems integration
- Agile software development methodology
- Implementation
- Testing
- Troubleshooting
- User guide documentation
- Teamwork
- Communication skills
- Self-learning
- Self-motivated
- Team player
- Tight deadlines
- Meet schedules
Operations management
Performance monitoring
Process improvement
Coaching and mentoring
Personal Information
- Place of Birth: Shoubra, Egypt
- Date of Birth: 12/12/92
- Nationality: Egyptian
- Marital Status: Single
Accomplishments
- Supervised team of [Number] staff members.
Timeline
Team Lead
Siemens EDA
01.2022 - Current
Technical Lead
Mentor Graphics
01.2021 - 12.2021
Senior Software Development Engineer
Mentor Graphics
03.2018 - 12.2020
Software Development Engineer
Mentor Graphics
03.2016 - 02.2018
Software Development Engineer
Egyptian Armed Forces
06.2015 - 03.2016
Diploma - Embedded Systems
AMIT-learning
09.2014 - 12.2014
Bachelor of Science - Electronics and Electrical Communications Engineering
Cairo University
01.2009 - 01.2014
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