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Currently a Member of Technical Staff at Aquantia Corp. Always curious about technological innovations and therefore graduated in electrical engineering & computer science. Strives for a complete understanding of computers, from the lowest level—i.e., the bare integrated circuits—to the highest—i.e., user space—, and is therefore always eager to learn something new. Enjoys writing small programs in his free time, either to automate everyday problems, or simply for the sake of fun, and gets excited by the seemingly endless possibilities of Linux. Loves a good read, also on non-tech subjects like economics, anthropology, or (geo)politics.
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<p>Do you want to get in touch? <a class="smoothscroll" href="#contact">Click here to get to the contact section of this page.</a> There I provided my phone number, email address, PGP Key ID, Matrix ID and several other ways to reach me!</p>
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<h3>RWTH Aachen University</h3>
<p class="info">M.Sc. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science<span>&bull;</span>
<em class="date">October 2015 - November 2018</em></p>
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<li><i>Specialization</i>: Micro- and Nanoelectronics</li>
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<li><i>Final project</i>: "<a href="https://git.dennispotter.eu/Dennis/masters-thesis/releases">Implementation and Analysis of an InfiniBand based Communication in a Real-Time Co-Simulation Framework</a>"&mdash;An analysis and subsequent implementation of the Virtual Interface Architecture Infiniband, using the OpenStack verbs, in order to achieve high throughput and minimal latency between nodes of the real-time co-simulation framework VILLASnode. (Grade: A+)</li>
<li><i>Modules included</i>: lectures on VLSI architectures, computer arithmetics, mixed analog signals, neural networks, new materials and devices in information technology, numerical device simulation, and operating systems. Lab training on VLSI design, FPGA programming in VHDL, and on the production of FeRAM cells.</li>
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<h3>RWTH Aachen University</h3>
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<em class="date">October 2011 - September 2015</em></p>
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<li><i>Final project</i>: “Analysis of Concepts for Power Reduction in Arithmetic Units of MAP Decoders”&mdash;A mathematical, bit accurate implementation of a decoder in MATLAB and C++, to find techniques that will potentially reduce the switching activity (and thus the power) in the arithmetic units of the decoder. (Grade: A+)</li>
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<em class="date">September 2005 - July 2011</em></p>
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<li>Comparable to a university-preparatory school with Latin as additional language.</li>
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<h3>Aquantia Corporation</h3>
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<p class="info">Member of Technical Staff<span>&bull;</span> <em class="date">December 2018 - Present</em></p>
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<li>Design of digital Ethernet logic.</li>
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<p class="info">Consultant<span>&bull;</span> <em class="date">August 2017 - November 2018</em></p>
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<li>Development of a layer 2 Ethernet switch in SystemC. The goal was to create a transmission line model to verify functionality, which could be easily translated into synthesizable code later, using a high-level synthesis suite.</li>
<li>Support and further development of the FPGA user interface and the power analysis environment which was developed during the internship.</li>
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<p class="info">Intern<span> &bull;</span> <em class="date">Nobember 2016 - July 2017</em></p>
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<li>Creation of an automated power analysis environment, build on top of Ansys' PowerArtist. Subsequently, power analysis and reduction on various digital designs was done.</li>
<li>Development of an intuitive graphical user interface, written in Python, Tkinter, and C, to access and manipulate an FPGA Ethernet debug tool.</li>
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<p class="info">Student Research Assistent <span>&bull;</span> <em class="date">May 2016 - July 2016</em></p>
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<li>Establishment of burst-mode communication between the FPGA fabric and CPU subsystem, over AXI and/or DDR interface on Altera Cyclone V devices.</li>
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Below, I listed skills I acquired during professional work or during intensive work in my free time. Besides the skills I have listed below, I
have some basic knowledge about photography and photo editting, webdesign with HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript, and server-side scripting with PHP and PostreSQL.
Furthermore I know how to sript in Linux with Perl/CSH and have basic knowledge about the Linux kernel architecture.
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<p>NWS forms a worldwide network of Dutch students enrolled at foreign universities.</p>
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<h4>Board member of K.A.V. Alcuinus</h4>
<p>In my time with K.A.V. Alcuinus I was treasurer &amp; president. I helped to initiate Studeren in Aken, which was set up to promote RWTH Aachen University among Dutch students, recruit them, and support them during their enrollment at a German university. The project was initiated by K.A.V. Alcuinus in 2012, but is nowadays backed by RWTH Aachen University, the Dutch consulate in Aachen, and several government institutions in the Netherlands.</p>
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<p>NWS forms a worldwide network of Dutch students currently, formerly and prospectively enrolled
at foreign universities or professional schools. It offers a platform for joint activities and
bridges the gap to the government, private sector, academic sector and society of the Netherlands.
NWS currently has more than 4500 members.<br />
<b>Responsibilities</b>: Setting up the new online environment on a Ubuntu based virtual
private server, including a new front end website, an online member management system, a new newsletter
system and a Microsoft Office 365 email environment. The given requirements are more user-friendliness
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<h4>Beauty Corner Vaals</h4>
<p>Beauty Corner Vaals is a beauty salon in Vaals (NL), ran by my lovely mother. Since her old website was deprecated and non-responsive, I offered to create a new website from the scratch.</p>
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