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 (33)
nes-emulator10
cycle10
nes10
filecoin7
blockchain6
reference-implementation6
ipfs6
golang5
external5
bitcoin5
grand-theft-auto4
anonymous4
icarus4
defold4
crypto3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
holodnak/nesemu2
Apr 2013 - Sep 2015
Contributions:246 commits, 23 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 5 months
emulatornescyclecycle-accuratenes-emulator
holodnak/nuc123-fdsemu
Nov 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:54 commits, 7 pushes, 3 tags in 2 months
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