Herman Schmit
Software Engineer at Google
Marina, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHerman Schmit is a software engineer and systems architect with over a decade of experience building at the intersection of hardware and software, currently contributing at Google after roles at X and Intel. He brings deep domain expertise in FPGA, structured ASICs, reconfigurable architectures, EDA and machine-learning hardware, backed by a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering and a rare combination of academic (7 years as a CMU professor) and startup founding/operator experience. Herman has led cross-disciplinary hardware and software teams through full product lifecycles and holds 139 granted US patents and 47 publications, signaling both practical delivery and sustained innovation. He excels at untangling complex system dependencies and translating concepts until every engineer truly understands them—a skill that amplifies team velocity as much as technical designs do. Based in Marina, California, he pairs rigorous research instincts with product-focused engineering, often approaching optimization as a craft pursued more for the fun of elegant solutions than for short-term profit.
12 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Computer Engineering, Ph.D., Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon UniversityBSE, Computer Science Engineering, BSE, Computer Science Engineering at University of Pennsylvania
Github Skills (17)
verilog9
placement9
cpu9
asic9
fpga9
risc8
risc-v8
synthesis8
eda8
physical-design8
vlsi8
systemverilog-hdl7
cad7
linux6
bioinformatics5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
hermanschmit/FpgaDrawbot
Apr 2014 - May 2017
Contributions:29 commits, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
hermanschmit/vtr-verilog-to-routing
Jan 2023 - Apr 2023
Verilog to Routing -- Open Source CAD Flow for FPGA Research
Contributions:3 pushes, 5 branches in 3 months
cadedasynthesisroutingvlsi
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