Summary
Joe Zbiciak is a systems architect and hands-on engineer with nine years of recent experience and decades of deep expertise in processor, DSP and SoC design. He's led ARM SmartNIC subsystem architecture at Google and owned memory, security and SIMD/VLIW architectures at Texas Instruments, bringing a rare combination of low-level assembly optimization and high-level C++ solver design. As proprietor of Left Turn Only he also designs hardware and firmware for retro gaming platforms, including custom cartridge hardware and development toolchains, demonstrating both entrepreneurial and maker instincts. Joe excels at stripping unnecessary complexity from system designs, quickly absorbing new domains and producing practical, auditable architectures that perform under real constraints.
9 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BSEE Electrical Engineering w/ Computer Option, BSEE Electrical Engineering w/ Computer Option at Bradley University