James Holodnak
Lead FPGA Engineer at Aligned
Nashville-Davidson, Tennessee, United States
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Top SchoolJames Holodnak is a Lead FPGA Engineer with 13 years of hands-on experience integrating C/C++ and Verilog into high-performance compute units using PCIe, Ethernet, and UART. He has a long history of designing and shipping embedded systems, having run his own electronics shop and developed production hardware with microcontrollers and FPGAs. At SQRL Research Labs he implemented cryptographic algorithms in RTL and paired them with software stacks, reflecting a rare cross-disciplinary fluency in hardware and security. Based in Nashville, he combines two decades of programming practice with deep practical FPGA expertise to bridge firmware, drivers, and hardware design. James is comfortable moving projects from concept through validation and manufacturing, and often takes on both the research and implementation work himself.
13 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Science - AS, Computer Science, Associate of Science - AS, Computer Science at Nashville State Community College
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Github Skills (25)
nes-emulator10
filecoin6
blockchain5
data-recovery5
ipfs5
golang4
go3
pc-engine3
verilog3
cryptocurrency3
anonymous3
ecommerce2
wallet2
transaction2
api2
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
holodnak/nuc123-fdsemu
Nov 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:54 commits, 7 pushes, 3 tags in 2 months
holodnak/nesemu
Mar 2013 - Sep 2015
Contributions:39 commits, 3 pushes in 2 years 6 months
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