Chris Lavin
Principal Member Of Technical Staff at AMD
Longmont, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Lavin is a Principal Member of Technical Staff at AMD with eight years of industry experience and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Brigham Young University. He specializes in research-driven software and hardware co-design for high-performance FPGAs and semiconductor systems, blending deep architectural insight with practical tooling and automation. His track record includes leadership roles at AMD, Xilinx, and Tabula where he delivered 10x runtime and 5x memory improvements for architecture flows, novel FPGA path-delay characterization approaches, and infrastructure for validating multi-billion-transistor devices. Chris is passionate about simplicity, performance, and making systems run fast, and he frequently bridges academic research and production engineering—having developed open-source FPGA CAD tools and rapid compilation flows. Based in Longmont, Colorado, he brings a rare combination of academic rigor and hands-on optimization that accelerates chip validation and deployment.
8 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Electrical Engineering, PhD, Electrical Engineering at Brigham Young University
Spanish
Github Skills (34)
xilinx10
fpga10
vivado10
placement9
jvm-bytecode7
analytical7
heterogeneous7
kernel6
jython6
java6
parallel6
scale5
large-scale5
jupyter5
dataflow5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
clavin-xlnx/RapidWrightPages
Mar 2018 - Mar 2025
Contributions:1 PR, 126 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 1 month
Xilinx/RapidWright
Jun 2018 - Jan 2023
Build Customized FPGA Implementations for Vivado
Contributions:59 releases, 766 reviews, 977 commits in 4 years 8 months
implementationsvivadoxilinxcustomizedrapidwright
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