Brian Brooks
FPGA Engineer at Abaco Systems
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Brooks is an FPGA engineer in Austin with 15 years building high-performance communications and networking systems, currently designing FPGA solutions at Abaco Systems. He blends deep hardware-software expertise—having developed RFSoC and FPGA software and ported networking stacks on multi-core ARM SoCs—with practical production experience across Cisco, Extreme Networks, and ARM. His work spans data-plane integration, SDN enablement, and PHY/transceiver support, reflecting a specialty in making complex networking hardware interoperable and extensible. Known for optimizing open-source networking software for embedded SoCs, he has a track record of translating vendor-specific architectures (Broadcom, Cavium, Tensilica) into maintainable system software. A Boulder CS graduate, he pairs systems-level rigor with a pragmatic focus on efficient communications technology and long-term maintainability.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at University of Colorado Boulder
Github Skills (78)
cpp10
compiler10
rust10
facebook10
c-library10
rust-lang9
bluespec9
scalable9
siemens9
rust-language9
extensible9
bsc9
standard-library9
crate9
electrical-engineering9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
brooksbp/P4
Apr 2015 - Sep 2017
Contributions:12 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
brooksbp/haskell-openflow
Dec 2012 - Dec 2014
Contributions:49 commits in 2 years
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