Andrew Begey
FPGA Design Engineer at UCI
Escondido, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Begey is an FPGA Design Engineer with eight years of hands-on experience developing and troubleshooting digital systems for aerospace and research applications. He brings practical VHDL design and simulation expertise from roles at Northrop Grumman and L3Harris, paired with lab-proven skills using Vivado/ISE, ILAs, oscilloscopes, AWGs, and spectrum analyzers. Andrew has a strong academic foundation—BS from UC Irvine and a master's from UCLA—and has extended that learning into embedded IoT work, notably designing a SmartFusion2-based Wi‑Fi/ZigBee EVSE controller integrating custom PCBs, VHDL, C, and ESP8266 connectivity. His background spans both research and product-focused teams, including student-led projects and center-sponsored embedded systems research where he handled schematics, I2C/SPI, and board-level debugging. Based in Escondido, CA, he combines rigorous engineering practice with practical IoT integration experience, making him effective at turning complex hardware-software requirements into working prototypes. An uncommon asset: he’s comfortable bridging academic research and defense-industry workflows, accelerating prototypes toward deployable designs.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Art Physics, Associate of Art Physics at Golden West CollegeUniversity of California, IrvineNone Electrical and Electronics Engineering, None Electrical and Electronics Engineering at The University of EdinburghAssociate of Science Engineering, Associate of Science Engineering at Orange Coast CollegeUniversity of California, Los Angeles
English
Github Skills (7)
electric-vehicles10
esp329
matlab9
spi6
arduino5
esp82664
espressif3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (3)
CalPlug/EVSE_Smart_Charger
Dec 2017 - May 2018
Electrical Vehicle Supply Equipment (EVSE) Smart Charger - Example smart EV designs and a demonstration MATLAB device-group demand management
Contributions:70 commits, 51 pushes in 4 months
matlabevseelectric-vehiclesade7953esp32
CalPlug/MUGIC
Jan 2018 - Jan 2018
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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