George Smart
Principle Hardware Engineer at Arm
East Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolGeorge Smart is a Principal Hardware Engineer with a PhD in Electronic Engineering & Wireless Networking from UCL and over a decade of hands-on experience designing complex digital and RF systems in the semiconductor industry. He has led architecture and bring-up of custom test infrastructures, FPGA platforms and power-optimised boards at Arm, enabling large-scale validation and early software enablement for cutting-edge silicon. Equally fluent in schematic/PCB design, Verilog and embedded C, he also scripts automation and build tooling in Python, demonstrated by contributions that embed Git versioning into the popular MMDVMHost project. George combines technical leadership and mentoring with practical onsite silicon troubleshooting, and brings an unusual mix of academic research (patents/publications) and production-grade platform engineering. Based in East Cambridgeshire, he is also a licensed radio amateur (M1GEO), reflecting a deep, practical interest in RF beyond his day job.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
University College London
Stackoverflow
243reputation
30kreached
2answers
2questions
Github Skills (21)
git10
batchfile10
script10
build-automation10
batch10
c-language9
cprogramming-language9
cli8
command-line-interface8
command-line8
embedded6
casting6
twos-complement6
sys6
linux6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
g4klx/MMDVMHost
Mar 2017 - Mar 2017
The host program for the MMDVM
Role in this project:
Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:8 commits, 6 PRs, 17 comments in 3 days
Contributions summary:George primarily focused on automating the build process and integrating version information. They wrote a script (`prebuild.cmd`) to extract the Git commit hash and embed it into the build. This involved modifying the build process to incorporate the Git version and expose it via command-line options. The user also corrected a typo and made minor changes to include the git version information in the application's version output.
hdmimmdvmcnc-controllerhost
m1geo/MMDVM
Mar 2016 - Aug 2022
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 6 months
multi-modefirmwaredigital-voicevoicemodem
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