Syed Jafri
Hardware & Software Engineer
Building at the boundary of silicon & software
Hardware & software work, shipped and in-progress.
Software
CLI tool and dashboard for managing multi-environment deployments with automated rollback, health checks, and Slack integration.
Software
Lightweight WASM-compiled neural network runtime that runs quantized models in-browser with zero server dependency.
Hardware
4-layer PCB with USB-C PD negotiation, CAN bus interface, and isolated analog front-end for industrial sensor logging.
Software
Opinionated Go framework for building observable microservices with tracing, circuit-breaking, and gRPC/REST dual-mode routing.
Hardware
Real-time HDMI video pipeline on Spartan-7 implementing edge detection and LUT-based color grading at 1080p60.
Software
Real-time infra dashboard with sub-second latency, WebSocket streaming, time-series aggregation, and anomaly alerts.
Hardware
Battery-powered sensor node with LoRaWAN uplink, e-ink display, and MQTT bridge. 6-month battery life on AAA cells.
Papers and explorations in embedded systems, compilers, and hardware-software co-design.
Pre-print · arXiv · 2024
A scheduling framework for multi-core embedded processors that minimises dynamic power consumption while meeting real-time deadlines, evaluated across three industrial workloads.
Workshop · DAC · 2024
An LLVM pass that automatically vectorises fixed-point arithmetic kernels targeting ARM Cortex-M DSP extensions, achieving up to 3.2× throughput improvement.
Pre-print · 2025
Applying TLA⁺ model checking to the LoRaWAN Class A MAC protocol to surface timing violations and state-machine inconsistencies in three open-source implementations.
I'm an engineer who doesn't believe in the hardware/software divide. The most interesting problems live at the boundary — where firmware talks to silicon, where network packets become physical actions, where sensors transform the world into data.
My background spans embedded systems design, PCB layout, and low-level firmware, all the way through backend services and modern web frontends. I've shipped products that run for years on coin cells and built systems handling millions of API requests per day.
When I'm not building, I'm reading IEEE papers, contributing to open-source tooling, or tinkering with something that has no good reason to exist — yet.
Languages
Hardware
Infrastructure
Protocols
Certifications earned and competitions placed.
Certificates
AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Google Professional Cloud Developer
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
Embedded Systems Specialisation
Hackathons
HackMIT — Best Hardware Hack
UW x IBM Quantum Machine Learning
TreeHacks — Infrastructure Track
PennApps — Embedded Systems Challenge
HackGT — Best IoT Project
Have a project idea or want to work together? I'd love to hear from you.