Faisal Shah
Principal Advisor R&D Electrical Engineer at Halliburton
Houston, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFaisal Shah is a Principal R&D Electrical Engineer with 8+ years of hands-on experience leading multidisciplinary teams to deliver high-reliability, extreme-environment downhole systems. He combines deep technical expertise in embedded systems, DSP, VHDL, and power/communications design with a talent for turning feasibility studies into commercial products—often by inventing novel simulation and hardware-in-the-loop tools that accelerated verification. Known for pragmatic leadership and stakeholder influence, he has driven radical cost and schedule improvements (including a ~40% tool cost reduction) and personally designed OFDM-based PLC modems, FPGA HIL simulators, and real-time firmware stacks. Based in Houston, he pairs systems-level thinking with empathy for collaborators, surfacing motivations and incentives to get “impossible” cross-functional programs over the finish line.
8 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Electrical Engineering, Masters Electrical Engineering at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBurhan College
Github Skills (64)
fzf10
python10
git-branch10
libclang10
plugin10
vim10
neovim10
ctypes10
can-bus10
jtag9
plot9
mqtt9
graph9
ascii9
iot9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
faisal-shah/openocd
Apr 2018 - Jan 2023
The GNU MCU Eclipse OpenOCD
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 1 branch in 4 years 10 months
gnumcueclipsejavaopenocd
faisal-shah/dotfiles
Sep 2018 - May 2022
Contributions:92 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 8 months
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