Rahul Ramachandran
Electrical Engineering Student @UNSW
Passionate about building high-performance digital systems - with a focus on embedded systems and FPGAs.
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Work Experience

C

CSIRO

Nov 2025 - Present
FPGA Engineer Intern
Deploying machine learning models on Versal FPGAs for synthetic traffic generation.
U

UNSW Redback Racing

April 2025 - Nov 2025
Embedded Systems Engineer
Developed firmware targeting STM32 MCUs for accurate AV steering control.
C

Colombo House

Jan 2024 - Jan 2025
Resident Assistant
Supported a 200+ student community through weekly check-ins, event planning, and crisis response.

Education

U

UNSW Sydney

2023 - Present
Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical) (Honours)
Grade: Distinction

Languages

VHDL
C++
Verilog
C
Python

Software

Vivado
Vitis
STM32CubeIDE
Git
KiCAD
LTSpice
MATLAB
Altium
PSpice
Maple
My Projects

A curated collection of my engineering work across FPGA design, embedded systems and systems programming

Logic Gate Learner

Hardware accelerator implemented on an Arty A7 100T for a custom neural network design from scratch in Python, trained for MNIST digit recognition.

Verilog
Python
Source

Lightweight HTTP Server

Built a lightweight HTTP/1.1 server from scratch in C++ using raw POSIX sockets and a custom thread pool. Designed for concurrency, clean resource ownership (RAII), and gzip compression support.

C++
Source

RV32I Softcore CPU

Designed and implemented a custom 32-bit RISC-V CPU from scratch in VHDL. Verified the design on my Arty A7-100T FPGA board

VHDL
Source

Real-Time Sign-Language Translation Glove

Co-developed a wearable glove with flex sensors, IMU, and heart-rate monitoring for real-time Auslan (Australian Sign Language) recognition.

C++
Python
Source

Battery Management System

Custom STM32-based BMS tailored for single-cell lithium-ion applications. Features include voltage monitoring, fault detection, and UART-based diagnostics.

C
Source

CHV003 GPIO Driver

Custom GPIO driver for the CH32V003 microcontroller, designed for efficient pin control, interrupts, and low-level hardware access.

C
Source
Contact

Get in Touch

Interested in collaborating or working on a project? Feel free to reach out via email

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