# Nicholas Vitale

> Software Engineer at DreamBig Semiconductor Inc.

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

Software Engineer at DreamBig Semiconductor working on AI-SuperNIC and Chiplet technology. Interested in Computer Architecture, Hardware, Software, OS/Kernel, Networks, Quantum Computing,  and Video Game Development. Also like history and philosophy.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ DreamBig Semiconductor Inc.
Jan 2022 – Present | San Jose, California, United States
- Device modeling (Virtual Prototyping) of AI-SuperNIC and chiplet-based AI+network accelerators using the C Programming Language and QEMU. Familiarity with reading and understanding micro-architecture in order to faithfully model the hardware.

- Linux kernel PCIe drivers for AI-SuperNIC (both LAN and RDMA).

- DPI (Dynamic Programming Interface)-wrapped C code to interface with System Verilog RTL in VCS simulation environment.

- Implementation of AMBA bus protocols (AXI, etc.) for interconnect of DPI-wrapped C modules and RTL modules. 

- Ownership of internal tools, frameworks, and software repositories.

- Ownership of CI/CD pipelines at both modular and integration levels. Pipelines utilize AFL++(American Fuzzy Lop ++) for fuzzing.

- Ownership of software build systems (CMake based).

### Software Engineer Intern @ DreamBig Semiconductor Inc.
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | San Jose, California, United States
- C applications using raw sockets, Scapy, Wireshark/pcaps, etc.

- Implementation (using Python and a network sockets-based client/server architecture) and ownership of GUI application used to configure DreamBig’s SmartNIC and demonstrate its various offloads (IPSec, Match/Action (TC flower offload), etc).


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Engineering
University of California, Santa Cruz


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/nicholas-vitale-479538162

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Last updated: 2026-03-29