Boone Severson
Silicon Engineer at Google DeepMind
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBoone Severson is a seasoned silicon engineer with 14 years of experience leading pre- and post-silicon design, verification, and performance validation across HPC and ML accelerator domains. He has guided ASIC projects from early design through tapeout and GA at Cray, Intel, Groq, and Google, including post-silicon leads for multiple TPU generations. Comfortable as both a hands-on technical contributor and a manager, Boone has run distributed verification teams and built infrastructure for complex interconnect and accelerator chips. He also teaches computer architecture at UW–Madison, bridging industry practice with academia, and relocated from Sunnyvale to Madison while helping bring high-profile ASICs to production. A pragmatic polyglot in methods and tools, he’s known for adopting new verification methodologies and shipping silicon in fast-moving startup and hyperscale environments.
14 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Wisconsin-MadisonHigh School, High School at Stevens Point Area Senior High School
Github Skills (21)
syntax-highlighter10
build-system10
html10
zero-dependencies10
syntax-highlighting10
scalable10
viml9
javascript9
bazel9
gopls8
vim8
golang8
vim-go7
go7
file-generator5
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
BooneJS/temp_filter
Dec 2021 - Jul 2025
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
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