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ABOUT ME

CYRIL BARBEL EXAKO
EMBEDDED SYSTEMS / FPGA ENGINEER

SUMMARY

Embedded Systems Engineer with strong expertise in FPGA and C/C++ development. Specialized in low-level optimization, hardware acceleration, and system architecture. Operational experience in research and industrial environments.

LANGUAGES

FRENCH: NATIVE SPEAKER
ENGLISH: FLUENT [TOEIC: 980]

EDUCATION

COMPUTER ENGINEERING EPITA
2020 - 2025 | LE KREMLIN BICETRE, FRANCE

MAJOR: GISTRE - Real Time And Embedded Systems Engineering

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

FPGA ENGINEER INTERN AVANTIX
MARCH 2025 - AUGUST 2025 | AIX-EN-PROVENCE, FRANCE
  • Super Sampling Rate Fast Fourier Transform design in HDL.
  • Implementation and benchmark of radix-2/4/8/16 and split-radix in HDL.
  • Port of Neural Network from Pytorch to hardware component with Brevitas and FINN.
  • Worked with ADS9 and ADRV9029, evaluation boards.
VHDL | Verilog Xilinx Vivado FPGA Brevitas FINN Signal Processing
C/UNIX ASSISTANT EPITA
JULY 2024 - MARCH 2025 | LE KREMLIN-BICÊTRE, FRANCE
  • Assisted over 600 students during their first semester of the engineering program.
  • Training delivery and workshop preparation.
  • Stress testing of Python projects designed to harmonize coding skills of new students.
C Unix Python Shell
BACKEND DEVELOPER AMA EUROPEAN CONSULTING
SEPTEMBER 2023 - JANUARY 2024 | BRUSSELS, BELGIUM
  • Backend development of existing applications.
  • Design of new database architecture.
Backend PostgreSQL Javascript Typescript
STUDENT RESEARCHER LRE EPITA
JANUARY 2023 - JULY 2023 | LE KREMLIN-BICÊTRE, FRANCE
  • Researched static-dynamic genericity for hierarchical image representation.
  • Implementation of alphatree in static-dynamic genericity in Pylene (C++).
C++ Image Processing Genericity