Allen Viljoen
Sr. Failure Engineer at AMD
Round Rock, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAllen Viljoen is a Sr. Failure Engineer at AMD with a decade of hands-on systems experience shaped by a prior career as a UH-60 Blackhawk technician and crew chief in the Texas Army National Guard. He holds a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from UT Austin with focused expertise in real-time and embedded systems, software engineering, and computer architecture, and he gravitates toward high-level system architecture and trade-off analysis. Allen transitioned into engineering after deployments to Kuwait and Iraq, bringing disciplined leadership, practical avionics and hardware troubleshooting skills, and a strong appetite for learning toward future architect roles. Outside of work he pursues technical hobbies—speed-solving Rubik’s Cubes at sub-13s averages, running marathons, and restoring a 1971 El Camino—demonstrating persistence, mechanical craftsmanship, and a hands-on approach to complex projects.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at AustinAssociate of Science - AS, Electrical Engineering, Associate of Science - AS, Electrical Engineering at Austin Community CollegeProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Ald0s/Car-Selector-Backend
Feb 2018 - Aug 2020
Contributions:6 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
Ald0s/ZapNetwork
Jun 2017 - Jan 2020
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
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