Chris Gonzales
FPGA Engineer at Headlands Technologies LLC
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Gonzales is an FPGA engineer with 15 years of hands-on experience across FPGA and ASIC design, verification, and post-silicon bringup, currently driving hardware projects at Headlands Technologies in Chicago. He has a track record of professionalizing hardware teams and processes—scaling an FPGA group from 3 to 8 engineers while introducing CI, behavioral unit testing, and formal verification to improve quality and delivery. His background spans high-performance server IO, GPU memory interfaces, and ultra-low-power microprocessor research, giving him rare breadth from lab measurement (oscilloscopes, board bringup) to RTL, synthesis, and static timing closure. Skilled in Verilog, Synopsys toolflows, Xilinx Vivado, Intel Quartus, Perl, and Python, he obsessively measures design quality with quantitative metrics rather than intuition alone. Notably, he led cross-cultural vendor handoffs on advanced-node ASICs and modernized verification frameworks for trading-grade network appliances, reflecting both technical depth and operational leadership.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Other; CORe Credential of Readiness, Pass with High Honors, Other; CORe Credential of Readiness, Pass with High Honors at Harvard Business School OnlineCalifornia Institute of Technology
Github Skills (10)
remote-app5
persistent5
yosys5
synthesis5
python4
x113
linux3
macos3
remote-desktop3
windows3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
cgonzo/million_song
Apr 2011 - May 2011
Contributions:302 commits in 26 days
cgonzo/image-align
Jan 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:19 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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