Summary
Jean-christophe Owens is an embedded processor specialist with 11 years of experience designing and bringing up systems across x86, ARM, RISC-V, MicroBlaze and FPGA platforms at AMD and Xilinx. He blends hands-on baremetal, kernel, Petalinux and Yocto bring-up skills with field application engineering, enabling customers to deploy complex embedded solutions. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he has a strong academic foundation from the University of Colorado Boulder and a track record of mentoring and growing student engineering communities as IEEE president and course lab assistant. Comfortable oscillating between low-level firmware and system integration, he’s known for solving cross-architecture portability challenges and accelerating product paths to silicon. An organizer and technical communicator by background, he pairs practical debugging expertise with customer-facing technical leadership.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of Colorado Boulder
English, French