Ali Rouhi
Director, Software
Oakland,CA
Summary
Silicon Valley professional with 24 years of experience in Cloud Services, Embedded Software, Indexing and Search, Computer Vision
Overview
33
33
years of professional experience
8
8
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Director Software
Quantenna Communications
San Jose, California
07.2014 - Current
- Quantenna Communications is a leader in high performance WiFi chipset design.
- Quantenna was acquired by OnSemi in June 2019
- I led a team of up to 10 engineers for design and maintenance of AWS cloud platform to collect WiFi chipset data for business intelligence, system health, remote monitoring and remote debug System is in use by a major European service provider for monitoring 10 million+ residential gateways and WiFi repeaters.
- At OnSemi I also lead the Fixed Wireless Access project for providing WAN service over WiFi with a team of 6 engineers serving two major ISPs. Core responsibilities include overall technical leadership, hiring, writing and maintaining statements of work, and delivering features based on tight schedules specified in the statements of work.
Chief Software Architect
Seyyer
Palo Alto, California
06.2011 - 06.2014
- Seyyer was a video avatar creation company Was part of team of 2 who founded the company Designed and implemented text to video computer vision algorithm in C++ with supporting software in Java, Matlab and Perl.
- Software was written from scratch Software trained and synthesised human face models, transforming phoneme data to realistic human face animation of speech (algorithms used: Principal Component Analysis, optical flow and Active Appearance Models).
Senior Manager Software
Quantenna Communications
Fremont, California
06.2006 - 06.2011
- I was part of a team of 6 who founded Quantenna I joined the team for my skills in indexing and search.
- The company changed direction to become a pure semiconductor company.
- In the first year I wrote bare metal code in C for hardware bringup During the remaining years I led the embedded software team of 5 to 10 through successful tapeout of the first two Quantenna WiFi chipsets Played a key role in securing first customer (SwissCom).
Senior Software Engineer
Hewlett Packard
11.2003 - 05.2006
- HP acquired my previous company (Persist Technologies) for its email archiving and search product Evaluated new indexing and search technologies Led product internationalization effort.
Senior Software Engineer
Persist Technologies
Pleasanton, California
03.2002 - 11.2003
- Persist was spun off from my previous company (Zantaz) to productize the Zantaz email archiving and search product Speed up and optimization of various backend components Redesigned web search frontend.
Software Team Lead
Zantaz
Pleasanton, California
09.1998 - 03.2002
- Zantaz was an early leader in document archiving and search systems Lead team of 3 developers for port of HTTP and SMTP subsystems to horizontally scalable architecture Led extension of system to non email documents.
Java Developer
Random Noise
San Francisco, California
06.1997 - 07.1998
- Random Noise produced Coda, an early web authoring tool written in Java Wrote subsystem for chart creation.
Assistant Research Physicist
UC
San Diego
09.1991 - 06.1997
- Developed numerical algorithms for solving a wide class of ordinary and partial differential equations Developed a new formalism for modeling of fluid flows with free surfaces Developed a symmetry preserving numerical model for two-dimensional fluids.
Postdoctoral Fellow
UC
San Diego
09.1990 - 09.1991
- Developed models for investigating coupled internal wave/vortical motion in the ocean.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Caltech
09.1988 - 09.1990
- Conducted research in vortex dynamics Taught one year seminar for faculty and graduate students on uses of differential geometry in physics and applied mathematics.
Education
PhD - Physics
UC
09.1984 - 08.1988
BA - Physics
Reed College
09.1980 - 06.1984
Skills
Cloud Computing
Embedded Software
C
C
Java
Matlab
Python
Patents
Seven patents in the fields of WiFi communications and Computer Vision
Timeline
Director Software
Quantenna Communications
07.2014 - Current
Chief Software Architect
Seyyer
06.2011 - 06.2014
Senior Manager Software
Quantenna Communications
06.2006 - 06.2011
Senior Software Engineer
Hewlett Packard
11.2003 - 05.2006
Senior Software Engineer
Persist Technologies
03.2002 - 11.2003
Software Team Lead
Zantaz
09.1998 - 03.2002
Java Developer
Random Noise
06.1997 - 07.1998
Assistant Research Physicist
UC
09.1991 - 06.1997
Postdoctoral Fellow
UC
09.1990 - 09.1991
Postdoctoral Fellow
Caltech
09.1988 - 09.1990
PhD - Physics
UC
09.1984 - 08.1988
BA - Physics
Reed College
09.1980 - 06.1984