# Dhruvin Shah

> Software Engineer at Cisco Meraki

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/dhruvin

Hardware/RF Engineer at Fastback Networks with 2.5 years of industrial experience in RF, Digital and Analog Circuit Design process, limited project management, regulatory and standards aspects of wired and wireless communications systems.

Highlights

• Extensive experience in Design and development of RF and Mixed Signal Circuits 
• Full HW Developement cycle experience for an RF system (led schematic and layout designs, saw them through production, tested and verified the performance, and revised them accordingly)
• Demonstrated leadership ability at project-level; led several PCB projects through planning and execution; interfaced with cross functional teams.
• Experienced with international standards in 5 GHz wireless communication achieved by designing and certifying four designs of DFS and Carrier Sense with FCC, IC, ETSI and MIC

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Cisco Meraki
Jan 2019 – Present

### Compliance Engineer @ Cisco Meraki
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019

### Hardware/RF engineer @ Fastback Networks
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area
Responsible for RF & digital circuit design, RF switching logic, matching circuits, interfaces, hardware/firmware integration, testing, certification for Wi-Fi chips used for DFS & Carrier Sense as part of a multi-receiver backhaul system in the unlicensed 5 GHz band
Project Management and Full development cycle experience for an RF system (including initial Schemetic design, Layout Design, Design review, First Article bring up, Production testing and support production with any issues)
Built and worked on numerous calibrated RF test setups for radiated and conducted measurements
Worked on several DFS and Carrier Sense projects for compliance with agencies such as FCC, ETSI, IC, and MIC
Worked on sensing and reducing enodeB emissions, prototype and bring up SFP, Dying Gasp, Carrier Aggregation,   
Worked with FW team to define algorithm for DFS, Carrier Sense and Radio bootstrap
Worked on Qualcomm Atheros 9k and 10k codebase for Atheros Wi-Fi chips
Extensive Experience with various bus architectures such as SPI, PCIe, SGMII, HS-UART, I2C

### Hardware Integration Engineering Intern @ Fastback Networks
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013
Designed part of RF Front end PC Board for Rx only Wi-Fi chip, characterized DFS radar sensitivity at 5GHz 
Worked on schematic, layout (Cadence Allegro) & integration of PCBs, supported production team in manufacturing & testing
Worked on Qualcomm Atheros 9k code base to program Wi-Fi chips

### Firmware engineering intern @ Fastback Networks
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013
Worked on 1588 Module of frame based backhaul radio, wrote driver & module code to integrate QCA Wi-Fi chip
Created software to show graphical representation of device statistics

### Research Assistant Volunteer student (Volunteer) @ University of Waterloo
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012
Worked on Various PCB manufacturing machines including milling machine, laser printing, and multipress
Exposure to design and testing of High speed/RF circuits
Exposure to various softwares related to PCB printing and CAD such as ADS.
Learn about mm-Wave Silicon Technology

### Research assistant @ University of Waterloo
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012
Schematic design and PCB layout for a camera connector board in EagleCAD
Worked on driver and schematic for TI's OMAP ISP to facilitate integration in the Drone Camera system 
Worked on different embedded systems such as Raspberry Pi, Beagleboard xM, and several microITX boards
Bash scripting for installation of Gentoo(linux) system on various processor architecture
Worked on QNX Nutrino Microkernel IPC to test functionality of "tagging" kernel

### Design Verification Engineer @ Nanometrics Seismological Instruments
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011
Evaluated embedded firmware & hardware for a seismograph, performed tests such as EMI, four-corner temperature tests, IP67 
Worked on circuit analysis and debugging, soldering ICs on PCB, exposed to buck, boost, buck-boost & flyback circuits PADs

### IT and Networking Student @ Velcro Canada Inc.
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011
Worked on several projects involving networking and programming(C# and PHP).
Developed web applications using PHP, JavaScript and MySql
Experience with tcp/ip and other networking protocols, exposure to basic networking principles
Experience using Cisco Configuration Assistant


## Education
### Master's degree in Computer Science
Georgia Institute of Technology
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021

### Bachelor's Applied Science in Electrical and Electronics Engineering
University of Waterloo
Jan 2009 – Jan 2014


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/dhurvinshah

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Last updated: 2026-03-23