James Zhu
Senior Software Engineer at NVIDIA
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Zhu is a Senior Software Engineer based in San Jose with 12 years of experience specializing in embedded device security and secure boot for NVIDIA SOCs across automotive, embedded, and datacenter domains. He designs root-of-trust and safety-certified secure boot firmware, bringing deep hands-on experience from intern projects (cryptography test frameworks and fault-injection simulators) to leading firmware work on Grace and Thor. A UC Berkeley EECS alum who taught large-scale networking courses during the 2020 lockdown, he blends strong academic communication skills with production security engineering. Notably, his background includes low-level FPGA signal processing at Fermilab, reflecting a rare mix of hardware-aware development and applied cryptography.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyNaperville North High School
Github Skills (61)
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Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
jameslzhu/telescope
May 2015 - Jun 2018
Contributions:280 commits, 214 pushes, 34 branches in 3 years
jameslzhu/hknweb
Nov 2017 - Aug 2020
The new HKN website (hopefully at https://hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu soon)
Contributions:179 pushes, 62 branches in 2 years 8 months
berkeleyeecsedu
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