Dan Shimizu
Senior Fellow at Lawrence Hall of Science, UC Berkeley
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDan Shimizu is a seasoned SoC and ASIC architect with over three decades of experience and eight years in senior leadership roles, currently serving as a Senior Fellow at AMD in San Francisco. He led architecture and design for multiple generations of game-console SoCs—driving billions in annual revenue—and has been chief architect on marquee platforms including Nintendo GameCube, Wii, and Wii U. Equally at home in silicon and software, he co-founded indie game studios and shipped commercial titles and tools, blending deep hardware expertise with game development sensibilities. Dan also advises the Lawrence Hall of Science at UC Berkeley, reflecting a long-standing commitment to education and outreach. A UC Berkeley EECS alumnus, he pairs system-level architecture skills with hands-on verification, bring-up, and FPGA experience, and once tested DSP hardware in the extreme: fieldwork on the Greenland icecap.
8 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
BS EECS, Electrical Engineering Computer Science, BS EECS, Electrical Engineering Computer Science at UC Berkeley College of Engineering
Github Skills (70)
spine10
js-plugin10
javascript10
runtimes10
animation10
node-api10
api10
html10
napi10
rust10
steam10
integrate10
electron10
steamworks10
nwjs10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
MikalDev/3dobject
Sep 2021 - Mar 2025
3dObject for Construct 3
Contributions:3 releases, 19 PRs, 100 pushes in 3 years 6 months
gritsenko/c3_spine_plugin
Sep 2019 - Jan 2023
Spine plugin for construct 3
Contributions:55 releases, 1 review, 125 commits in 3 years 3 months
spinetypescript
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