
Anna Ziuziakowska enhanced build and CI/CD workflows across lowRISC/opentitan and CTSRD-CHERI/cheribuild by standardizing Bazel-based build documentation, automating nightly FPGA test result uploads to Google Cloud, and upgrading build environments to Ubuntu 22.04 for improved reproducibility. She focused on reducing setup friction by consolidating environment setup guidance and aligning toolchain usage, leveraging Python, Bash, and Dockerfile scripting. Her work included refining CI workflows with GitHub Actions, enforcing license compliance, and managing dependencies for LLVM compatibility. These contributions improved onboarding, reliability, and traceability, demonstrating depth in build systems, automation, and environment management within complex open-source hardware projects.
December 2025: Delivered critical build environment enhancements and CI reliability improvements across CTSRD-CHERI/cheribuild and lowRISC/opentitan. Achievements include upgrading Debian/Ubuntu build base to Ubuntu 22.04 with essential dependencies for LLVM, standardizing CI nightly dispatch, and enforcing REUSE license compliance—together reducing build failures, improving reproducibility, and accelerating release readiness. Key technical outcomes include updated Dockerfiles, added tzdata and time dependencies, CI workflow adjustments, and license text handling improvements.
December 2025: Delivered critical build environment enhancements and CI reliability improvements across CTSRD-CHERI/cheribuild and lowRISC/opentitan. Achievements include upgrading Debian/Ubuntu build base to Ubuntu 22.04 with essential dependencies for LLVM, standardizing CI nightly dispatch, and enforcing REUSE license compliance—together reducing build failures, improving reproducibility, and accelerating release readiness. Key technical outcomes include updated Dockerfiles, added tzdata and time dependencies, CI workflow adjustments, and license text handling improvements.
Month 2025-11: Enhanced CI/CD pipeline in lowRISC/opentitan by delivering a repository feature that uploads nightly FPGA test results to a Google Cloud bucket. This automates collection and storage of test artifacts, improving visibility, triage speed, and reliability of nightly FPGA validation.
Month 2025-11: Enhanced CI/CD pipeline in lowRISC/opentitan by delivering a repository feature that uploads nightly FPGA test results to a Google Cloud bucket. This automates collection and storage of test artifacts, improving visibility, triage speed, and reliability of nightly FPGA validation.
Month: 2025-08 Key features delivered: - Bazel-based Build and Test Workflow Documentation: consolidated and standardized usage in the docs, replacing ./bazelisk.sh with bazel, using Bazel to invoke OpenOCD, promoting internal toolchain usage with Bazel commands, and recommending bazel run for Verilator tests to ensure compatibility with OpenOCD and GDB. - Environment Setup and Toolchain Guidance: guidelines to install Python dependencies in a virtual environment and to install an older C/C++ toolchain needed for Verilator due to GCC version incompatibilities. Major bugs fixed: - No major bugs fixed this month; focus was on documentation and setup improvements. Overall impact and accomplishments: - Improves onboarding, reproducibility in CI, and alignment with internal tooling; reduces friction when setting up builds and tests; enables more reliable debugging workflows with OpenOCD and GDB; supports Verilator testing with Bazel-based commands. Technologies/skills demonstrated: - Bazel, OpenOCD, GDB, Verilator, Python virtual environments, toolchain management, documentation discipline.
Month: 2025-08 Key features delivered: - Bazel-based Build and Test Workflow Documentation: consolidated and standardized usage in the docs, replacing ./bazelisk.sh with bazel, using Bazel to invoke OpenOCD, promoting internal toolchain usage with Bazel commands, and recommending bazel run for Verilator tests to ensure compatibility with OpenOCD and GDB. - Environment Setup and Toolchain Guidance: guidelines to install Python dependencies in a virtual environment and to install an older C/C++ toolchain needed for Verilator due to GCC version incompatibilities. Major bugs fixed: - No major bugs fixed this month; focus was on documentation and setup improvements. Overall impact and accomplishments: - Improves onboarding, reproducibility in CI, and alignment with internal tooling; reduces friction when setting up builds and tests; enables more reliable debugging workflows with OpenOCD and GDB; supports Verilator testing with Bazel-based commands. Technologies/skills demonstrated: - Bazel, OpenOCD, GDB, Verilator, Python virtual environments, toolchain management, documentation discipline.

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