Summary
Enze Chi is an experienced FPGA and ASIC engineer with over 15 years in high-performance hardware design and 8 years focused on FPGA work, currently driving low-latency FPGA solutions at Optiver Asia Pacific. He combines deep RTL expertise in Verilog/SystemVerilog/VHDL with practical verification skills using UVM, SVA and Python-driven regressions, and has hands-on experience with Cadence/Synopsys/Mentor flows. His career spans telecommunications and high-speed networking projects at Cisco, Finisar and Blackmagic Design, where he designed and integrated Ethernet/IP blocks, QDR interfaces and complex traffic management logic. Comfortable across Linux and Windows toolchains, he also programs in C++ and automates flows with shell and Python, and is bilingual in Mandarin and English. Notably, he has led both design and verification efforts as project manager on line-card and SPA card programs, demonstrating the rare combination of architect-level design thinking and day-to-day verification/debugging rigor.
8 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
UNSW Sydney
English, Chinese