Brian Glod
Principal Software Engineer at Confidential
City of Rochester, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Glod is a Principal Software Engineer and electrical/computer engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience designing FPGA-based systems, embedded software, and RF hardware integration. He has led FPGA and DSP efforts across aerospace and defense contractors and startups, bringing deep expertise in VHDL, Tcl, C, and tools like Xilinx Vivado/ISE and Quartus. His work spans board design and signal integrity through firmware—most notably contributing to the bladeRF open-source SDR project by implementing FPGA firmware and a custom SPI controller for LMS6002D and later AD9361 transceivers. Based in Rochester, NY, he combines academic grounding (MS in Electrical Engineering) with practical system-level delivery, frequently bridging hardware, FPGA softcores (Nios II), and timing-sensitive designs like VCTCXO tuning with 1PPS. Colleagues rely on him to turn RF requirements into reliable, testable digital designs and to mentor teams on complex hardware–software integration.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Electrical Engineering, MS, Electrical Engineering at Rochester Institute of Technology
Github Skills (8)
fpga10
embedded10
serial-communication10
spi10
sys10
vhdl10
verilog8
signal-processing7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Nuand/bladeRF
Jun 2015 - Dec 2018
bladeRF USB 3.0 Superspeed Software Defined Radio Source Code
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:340 commits, 10 PRs, 36 pushes in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Brian primarily contributed to the development of the bladeRF FPGA firmware, focusing on implementing a custom SPI controller for the LMS6002D chip, and later updating the firmware to support the AD9361 transceiver chip. The work included adding and updating interfaces, and integrating with the Nios II softcore, specifically implementing functionality for VCTCXO tuning using a 1PPS signal, and by including RFFE configuration options. The contributions are primarily concerned with RF hardware integration.
bladerfsoftware-defined-radiodefineddfuusb
bglod/Intuit-PaycheckRecords-Python
Feb 2018 - Jan 2019
This provides a small python api to Intuit's Paycheck Records site.
Contributions:1 PR, 6 pushes, 1 tag in 11 months
apipythonrecordspaycheckintuit
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