Summary
Guillermo Silva is a seasoned controls and firmware engineer with over two decades of experience and more than a decade focused at IBM, where he progressed from low-level firmware roles to leading bringup efforts and designing power and thermal control architectures for POWER servers. He holds a PhD in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Texas A&M and a B.S. from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, combining deep academic rigor with practical product delivery. At IBM he helped commercialize EnergyScale Technology, earned two Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards, and served as a technical concierge and liaison to bridge research prototypes into production. Now based in Cedar Park, Texas, he’s applying his systems-level expertise to data center engineering for the Cloud Innovation Lab, blending firmware, thermal/power control, and infrastructure know-how to optimize cloud hardware lifecycles.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Texas A&M University
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú