Samarth Agarwal Email & Phone Number

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

As a software engineer on the Static Timing Analysis team, my key responsibilities included improving the existing functionality of the Quartus Prime timing analyzer and implementing new timing analysis features to support upcoming FPGA architectures.• Developed a tool to translate timing information in FPGA circuits into a format compatible with third-party tools, addressing issues such as unconventional component connections and data related to peripheral components• Implemented a… Show more As a software engineer on the Static Timing Analysis team, my key responsibilities included improving the existing functionality of the Quartus Prime timing analyzer and implementing new timing analysis features to support upcoming FPGA architectures.• Developed a tool to translate timing information in FPGA circuits into a format compatible with third-party tools, addressing issues such as unconventional component connections and data related to peripheral components• Implemented a memory-efficient clock skew deskew algorithm that tracked timing components along clock paths in an FPGA circuit and utilized them at path endpoints for clock adjustment calculations• Enabled users to identify components affected by specified clock signals in an FPGA circuit by designing a DFS algorithm to traverse a weighted, directed graph that encoded timing information for the circuit• Created a Python script to test Quartus Prime's customer-facing TCL API by generating random combinations of flags and arguments, executing them on diverse FPGA circuits, and validating for errors• Prototyped a chatbot tailored for the Quartus Prime user guide by utilizing OpenAI models to process user queries, identify relevant guide sections, and formulate coherent responses• Mentored two new team members by assigning tasks, offering constructive feedback, and conducting regular check-ins to monitor progress Show less

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Designed an accessible React frontend to interface with an identity provider and a RESTful health data API using the OAuth 2.0 protocol• Streamlined data ingestion from nearly 120 patients into a service by developing a Python script that converted CSV patient data into JSON format• Extended a RESTful Django service managing sensitive patient data by implementing authorization middleware, thereby limiting user access to data based on their assigned permissions• Added a persistence… Show more • Designed an accessible React frontend to interface with an identity provider and a RESTful health data API using the OAuth 2.0 protocol• Streamlined data ingestion from nearly 120 patients into a service by developing a Python script that converted CSV patient data into JSON format• Extended a RESTful Django service managing sensitive patient data by implementing authorization middleware, thereby limiting user access to data based on their assigned permissions• Added a persistence layer to a RESTful service which queried multiple other services, allowing cached data to be used in the event that a service was unable to be queried Show less

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

In May 2020, I joined the CanDIG team at The Hospital for Sick Children. In July 2020, the CanDIG team was transferred to University Health Network and, as a result, the remainder of my internship was at University Health Network.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Decreased server downtime by approximately 20% through the implementation of a monitoring system that tracked key metrics across multiple servers• Simplified data accessibility within a cache by developing an ASP.NET web service that enabled users to read and write data from and to the cache• Wrote a script to efficiently convert multiple JSON data files into CSV format