Aric Blumer
Principal Hardware Engineer at LUNA Innovations
Pearisburg, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolAric Blumer is a Principal Hardware Engineer with over 24 years of deep expertise in digital design, FPGA development, and embedded systems, currently leading hardware work at LUNA Innovations. He has delivered complex IP—DDR arbiters, PCIe DMA, LVDS gearboxes, SMPTE SDI frame buffers, and more—while managing large Vivado-based designs and git workflows. A practical tool-builder, he created software-programmable register-description tooling that generates synthesizable VHDL, timing constraints, docs, and C headers from a single source. His PhD research on run-time FPGA reconfiguration to accelerate RTL simulation and experience as a college instructor underscore a rare blend of research rigor, hands-on implementation, and mentoring. Based in Pearisburg, VA, he combines contractor and product-side perspectives to solve challenging hardware-software integration problems for defense and commercial applications.
24 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Engineering, MS, Computer Engineering at Clemson UniversityVirginia Tech
Github Skills (8)
buffer10
organize10
ide8
manjaro8
xilinx7
kernel6
linux-kernel6
linux4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (3)
vim-scripts/project.tar.gz
Oct 2001 - Oct 2006
Organize/Navigate projects of files (like IDE/buffer explorer)
Contributions:11 commits in 5 years 1 month
buffernavigateorganizeideexplorer
draric/linux-xlnx
Aug 2017 - Aug 2017
The official Linux kernel from Xilinx
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
kernelxilinxmanjarolinuxlinux-kernel
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