Hi, I'm Wassim

Wassim Filali

System Architect at BMW AG

I am a passionate of embedded systems with 14 years of experience. Doctor in Robotics and Machine Learning, experience with Academic and industrial Multinational companies. Expertise in Complex Embedded Systems and their high performance networking. Polyglot, maintaining a network of worldwide professional and social contacts.

Leadership
Team Work
Communication
Hard Working
Fast Learner
Problem Solving

Skills

Experiences

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System Architect Infotainment
BMW AG.

Jul 2019 - Present, Munich, Germany

Infotainment department. Control units for the BMW Group car models.

Responsibilities:
  • Design cross Control Units architecture
  • Control Unit software cross domains interfaces design and hardware abstraction concept
  • Software components definition and configuration

Robert Bosch GmbH.

Jul 2016 - Jun 2016, Stuttgart, Germany

Automotive, Cameras Parking assistance department.

Software Developer

Jul 2014 - Jun 2016

  • Basic Software developer for Ethernet switch driver
  • SOME/IP network communication configuration
Software Architect

Jul 2016 - Jun 2019

  • Low level infrastructure software (Bootloaders, Startup sequence, communication)
  • Hypervisor and multi-cortex memory layout
  • High speed serial custom protocol design for cross SoC
  • Middleware design for hardware based events communication cross Cores and cross cortex
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Phd
National Scientific Research Center (LAAS-CNRS)

Oct 2009 - Nov 2014, Toulouse, France

LAAS, Laboratory of Analysis and Architecture of Systems

Responsibilities:
  • Machine Learning for Human Posture Recognition.
  • Multi-Camera network calibration and synchronization.
  • FPGA hardware design and algorithms acceleration with GPU.

Data Scientist
Continental

May 2012 - Aug 2012, Toulouse, France

Automotive control units,

Responsibilities:
  • Hand gesture recognition project for BMW AG.
  • Automation of video data analysis and machine learning tools.
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Application Engineer
ST Microelectronics

May 2006 - Jul 2007, Tunis, Tunisia

Video Team in the Set Top box department

Responsibilities:
  • Multimedia Standards implementation (HDMI, HDCP, CEC).
  • Drivers design, implementation and certification

Projects

Camera Based Systems
Camera Based Systems
Software Architect July 2014 - June 2019

Projects at Bosch : Parking assistance generation 1 for BMW. Parking assistance generation 2 for Daimler.

Infotainment
Infotainment
System Architect Jun 2019 - Present

Projects at BMW : Head Unit 2018/21. Audio Amplifier 2018/21. Head Unit 2022, Head Unit 2023, Future generations Control Units.

Genivi Alliance Android Audio HAL
Genivi Alliance Android Audio HAL
Participant Jul 2020 - Present

GENIVI Alliance scope is to help automakers and their suppliers develop standard approaches to integrate vehicle software and to enhance vehicle connectivity to the cloud.

Details
Set Top Boxes
Set Top Boxes
Developer Mai 2006 - July 2007

Projects at ST Microelectronics : HDMI and CEC drivers for two families of Set Top Boxes running on ST-Operating System and Linux.

Human Posture Recognition
Human Posture Recognition
Researcher Oct 2009 - Nov 2014

Projects at LAAS CNRS : Construction of volume from multiple depth images followed by Voxels classification with Random Forest into body parts.

Details
Smart Home 3D Webapp
Smart Home 3D Webapp
Owner Dec 2019 - Aug 2020

Interactive 3D Home model, with objects reflecting sensors status. Clicks and 3d sliders control the heating.

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nRF custom Mesh
nRF custom Mesh
Owner May 2018 - Aug 2020

Custom Mesh Netowrk RF protocol (with repeaters and low power end nodes), uart text serialisation for MQTT publishing.

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Home Automation Framework
Home Automation Framework
Owner Dec 2018 - Present

Back-end : services, middlewares and Python/Node.js applications. Front-end : webapps and connected smart buttons and controllers

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Network Graph Layout with Physics
Network Graph Layout with Physics
Owner Dec 2018 - Present

Experimental graph with collision Physics, using SVG with style, Interactive Nodes mutations and cost based partial layout

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Voronoi webapp
Voronoi webapp
Owner Apr 2020 - Sept 2020

Parametric Voronoi generator with real time editing and SVG export

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Low Power ESP Solar Board
Low Power ESP Solar Board
Core Member Aug 2020 - Present

The ESP Team focus on the ESP32 board targeting low power consumption and solar charging

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