Andrew Silverman
Entertainment Lighting Electrician at IATSE Local 15
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolAndrew Silverman is a veteran technical program manager turned entertainment lighting electrician, bringing 30+ years of systems, hardware, and firmware leadership at Microsoft to a second career in stage electrics and console programming. He led cross-disciplinary programs from MS-DOS and Windows-era products through Surface devices, Azure confidential compute ASICs, disaggregated FPGA systems for AI, and very-high-speed networking at datacenter scale. Known for quickly absorbing new technical domains, he combines hands-on skills (VHDL/Verilog, LabVIEW RT/FPGA, systems integration) with strategic architecture and manufacturing-test expertise. Now volunteering as an ETC EOS programmer and stage electrician, he applies enterprise-grade rigor to theatrical setups, cabling, and live-board operation. Based in Redmond, his background uniquely bridges low-level hardware design and real-world operational execution, plus a longstanding maker mindset reflected in hobbyist Verilog and teaching Java.
12 years of coding experience
34 years of employment as a software developer
Horace Greeley HSSchool of Engineering and Applied Science, Bachelor of Applied Science:, Applied Science/Computer Science, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Bachelor of Applied Science:, Applied Science/Computer Science at University of Pennsylvania
French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (77)
firmware10
esp3210
emulation10
pi10
3d-printer10
octoprint10
3d-printing10
arduino10
xilinx9
linux-kernel9
32-bit9
surface-duo9
pong9
avr9
qml9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
andrewsil1/NexysPsram
Jul 2014 - May 2022
Contributions:8 commits, 7 pushes, 2 branches in 7 years 11 months
andrewsil1/UltrastikCmd
Mar 2015 - Aug 2022
This is an updated version of Aleph's UltrastikCmd utility that supports newer firmware releases. Most of the dependency packages required for Linux are also included, some of which have been patched to fix bugs that were discovered after the packages were no longer being maintained.
Contributions:4 commits, 3 PRs, 5 pushes in 7 years 5 months
firmwarelinux
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