Bill Fischofer
SMTS Firmware Engineer at AMD
Cedar Park, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBill Fischofer is a firmware and systems engineering leader with 25+ years of experience solving hard problems at the hardware/software boundary, currently driving embedded firmware for AMD EPYC server SoCs. He combines deep technical expertise in silicon, multicore embedded processors, networking protocols, security/cryptography (including FIPS experience), virtualization and OS design with a talent for building consensus across international teams and competing constituencies. His career includes leading open-source, cross-platform networking projects at Linaro and delivering multiple generations of high-performance ASICs and CNAs at ServerEngines/Emulex and Britestream. Comfortable as a public speaker and technical evangelist, he pairs big-picture product vision with hands-on delivery, and has repeatedly turned complex silicon and protocol requirements into production firmware. An under-the-radar strength is his long history in both research (IBM) and startup environments, giving him rare fluency from mainframe hypervisors to modern edge OTA/security architectures.
12 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Mathematics, B.S., Mathematics at Georgetown UniversityM.S., Computer Science, M.S., Computer Science at Cornell University
Github Skills (11)
siemens10
odp10
plane10
cross-platform10
filemaker10
networking10
server10
dpdk7
ospf2
netbsd1
ipv61
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Bill-Fischofer-Linaro/odp
Apr 2017 - Feb 2019
The ODP project is an open-source, cross-platform set of application programming interfaces (APIs) for the networking data plane
Contributions:1 PR, 515 pushes, 109 branches in 1 year 10 months
networkingodpplanecross-platformdata-plane
Bill-Fischofer-Linaro/linux
May 2018 - Aug 2018
Contributions:13 pushes in 2 months
kernellinux-kernellinuxkernel-source
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