Parsa Rezvani
Computer Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area

ParsaRezvani.

I like to build.

Open to new-grad roles/SF Bay Area/UC Santa Cruz ’26

About

I have been taking things apart since I was a kid. A computer engineering degree at UC Santa Cruz turned that into building things I had no business building yet.

A few things I’ve done

  • Led my rocket team’s avionics, the flight computer and the telemetry that phones home mid-flight, to a top 5 finish at IREC nationals.
  • Researching FPGA CNN accelerators: pairing an ESP32-C3 with a Lattice iCE40 FPGA to run a hand-written RTL neural net on a live binarized camera feed, plus a toolchain that predicts which network will fit the chip before you ever synthesize it. 95% on MNIST at 72 fps in simulation so far, no board built yet.
  • Built FireFly, a drone-based wildfire-detection system for terrain no one’s watching yet.
  • Taught myself guitar the same way I teach myself everything else: slowly, stubbornly, until it clicks.

Work

2025 to presentFeatured

FireFly

Autonomous wildfire detection riding on drones, for terrain nobody is watching yet. My capstone, led as firmware dev.

  • ESP32-C3
  • C / ESP-IDF
  • YOLOv8
  • Flask · PostgreSQL
  • PCB
Live ground station
2025

Hardware Verification & SoC

Self-checking testbenches all the way to live FPGA bring-up, across 25+ obfuscated modules.

  • SystemVerilog
  • cocotb
  • AXI
  • CDC FIFO
  • FPGA
2024

Real-Time FPGA Game

An arcade game synthesized to silicon: FSM, VGA driver, LFSR obstacles, pixel-level collision.

  • SystemVerilog
  • VGA
  • LFSR
  • Basys3
2025 to 2026

LoopInterview

An AI interview coach I co-built, now used by 200+ people, shipped on a real build-measure-learn loop.

  • React · TS
  • Flask
  • ElevenLabs
  • WebSocket

Experience

  • 2024 to 2025
    Artly AI

    Built a computer-vision pipeline for product ID (78% to 94% accuracy), unified four robot subsystems over ROS2, and wrote the PWM/PID dispensing firmware.

    Engineering Intern · San Francisco
  • 2023 to 2026
    UCSC Rocketry · IREC

    Lead a 6-person avionics team to a top 5 finish at IREC nationals, with a Zephyr RTOS sensor-fusion flight computer and a 900 MHz ground station reaching 5+ miles.

    Avionics Team Lead · Santa Cruz
  • 2022 to 2023
    Invoiss

    Architected REST API infrastructure on AWS handling 10,000+ daily requests, cut response times 31%, and migrated the codebase to strict TypeScript.

    Software Engineering Intern · San Francisco

Stack

Languages
C · C++ · Python · SystemVerilog · Verilog · RISC-V Asm · TypeScript
Embedded & Hardware
ESP32 · STM32 · Zephyr · FreeRTOS · I²C / SPI / UART · AXI · FPGA · PCB
Verification & Tooling
cocotb · Verilator · SV testbenches · ROS2 · React / Flask · AWS · Linux

B.S. Computer Engineering, minor in CS · UC Santa Cruz · Graduated June 2026 · GPA 3.7 / 4.0

Contact

Let’s build
something real.

Open to new-grad roles in embedded systems, hardware verification, robotics, and full-stack. I read every message.

San Francisco · California