Ben Sampson
Senior Member Of Technical Staff at AMD
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Sampson is a Senior Member of Technical Staff based in the San Francisco Bay Area with nine years of experience designing digital systems for FPGAs and ASICs. He has progressed from hands-on research roles at Lockheed Martin—where he led FPGA SoC designs, prototyped radar algorithms in Python and CUDA, and automated verification—to senior engineering positions at AMD. Ben pairs deep RTL, clocking/reset architecture, and verification expertise with a strong track record of winning and leading small R&D teams to deliver customer-focused hardware systems. His academic foundation includes a near-perfect GPA in both BS and MS degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Delaware. Known for translating signal-processing prototypes into high-performance hardware and software, he brings a pragmatic mix of research rigor and production engineering. An appetite for novel digital design challenges and automation of testing workflows sets him apart from typical FPGA engineers.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 3.99, Master’s Degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 3.99 at University of Delaware
English
Github Skills (34)
hardware-designs10
ip10
digital-design10
systemverilog9
lexer9
yacc9
verilog9
hardware9
parser9
asic9
parameterized9
fpga9
hdl9
slang8
formatter8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
bensampson5/libsv
Dec 2020 - Feb 2022
An open source, parameterized SystemVerilog digital hardware IP library
Contributions:6 releases, 86 commits, 120 PRs in 1 year 1 month
digital-designasichdlasic-librarysystemverilog
bensampson5/hdl_template
Nov 2020 - Nov 2020
Contributions:9 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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