Erik Danie
Principal Engineer at SiFive
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolErik Danie is a Staff Engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with seven years of experience specializing in FPGA and SoC tooling and implementation. At SiFive since 2018, he focuses on bridging hardware design and software toolchains to accelerate silicon bring-up and agile chip development. His background in electrical engineering from Brown University and early roles in photonics and teaching reflect a strong foundation in both theory and practical prototyping. Colleagues describe him as a hands-on engineer who thrives on solving low-level integration challenges that unlock higher-level system capabilities. Although primarily focused on silicon tooling, he brings an educator’s clarity to complex technical problems, making him effective at mentoring peers and documenting tricky hardware-software interfaces.
7 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's of Science (ScB), Electrical Engineering, Bachelor's of Science (ScB), Electrical Engineering at Brown University
Github Skills (21)
scala10
chisel10
rocket-chip10
openocd7
hardware6
ethernet5
testing5
device-tree4
targets3
script-generator3
fpga3
wake3
verilog3
gnu-toolchain3
svd2
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
sifive/freedom
Oct 2018 - Mar 2021
Source files for SiFive's Freedom platforms
Contributions:21 commits, 7 PRs, 15 pushes in 2 years 5 months
sifiveplatformssource-files
sifive/fpga-shells
Nov 2018 - Dec 2020
Contributions:5 reviews, 167 commits, 86 PRs in 2 years 2 months
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