Aidan Klein
Digital Engineer at Northrop Grumman
Hanover, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAidan Klein is a Digital Engineer with nine years of hands-on experience designing and implementing hardware-software systems, currently contributing at Northrop Grumman from Hanover, Maryland. He blends digital design expertise in Verilog, SystemVerilog and VHDL with software skills including Linux kernel module development and Python, having built drone firmware and custom board support at CraftDrones. Aidan is an active back-end contributor to the Scala-based SpinalHDL project, improving HDL emission, test suites, and reusable data structures—work that underscores his deep understanding of hardware description languages and build tooling. Comfortable moving between low-level hardware RTL and higher-level software infrastructure, he brings practical systems thinking and a track record of reducing duplication and hardening build processes.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineering Technology, Computer Engineering Technology/Technician, Computer Engineering Technology, Computer Engineering Technology/Technician at Rochester Institute of TechnologyAssociate of Arts and Sciences (AAS), Electrical Engineering Technology, Associate of Arts and Sciences (AAS), Electrical Engineering Technology at Broome Community College
Github Skills (5)
scala10
system-design8
version-control7
git7
test-framework6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
SpinalHDL/SpinalHDL
Feb 2021 - Jan 2023
Scala based HDL
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:35 reviews, 244 commits, 75 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Aidan primarily contributed to the development of the SpinalHDL library. Their commits focused on improving the codebase, including fixing build-related issues, making source code directory management more robust, and extending the data structures through the addition of a Suffixable trait to reduce code duplication and increase reusability. The user also focused on VHDL and Verilog emission and struct handling, demonstrating a strong understanding of hardware description languages. They were also focused on integrating a new test suite framework.
scalartlvhdlverilogfpga
kleinai/SpinalHDL
Feb 2021 - Aug 2023
Scala based HDL
Contributions:216 pushes, 64 branches in 2 years 6 months
scalahdl
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