Joel M
Principal Engineer Physical Design at Marvell Semiconductor
Longmont, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoel M is a Principal Engineer in Physical Design with over 20 years of hands-on experience driving ASIC and automotive silicon from concept to tapeout, currently leading physical design at Marvell Semiconductor. He specializes in place & route, timing closure, DFT and STA flows across tools like PrimeTime, TimeCraft and Sierra Pinnacle, and has a track record of pushing performance and area optimizations for multi-million gate designs. Joel has repeatedly collaborated with global design centers (Japan, Germany, Europe, US) to standardize flows and reduce scan area and power, and he built MCMM and hierarchical P&R flows that met Intel-grade performance targets. Beyond chips, he has contributed to open-source testing infrastructure—improving RackHD API tests and regression suites—showing a practical focus on automation and quality assurance. Based in Longmont, Colorado, he combines deep toolchain expertise with a pragmatic engineering leadership style that reliably closes timing and production risks.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Utah
Github Skills (5)
python10
api-testing10
testing10
orchestration9
orchestra9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
RackHD/RackHD
Dec 2015 - Sep 2016
RackHD™ provides hardware management and orchestration services
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:36 commits, 82 PRs, 40 pushes in 9 months
Contributions summary:Joel contributed significantly to the testing infrastructure and API testing within the RackHD project. They modified existing API tests to utilize the latest Python client library, demonstrating an understanding of the project's API structure and testing methodologies. Further contributions included adding OS installer regression tests and implementing and refining event service tests. These actions suggest a strong focus on ensuring the quality and reliability of the RackHD software through automated testing.
orchestrationservesipmirackhdhardware
jlongever/netbox-serv
Aug 2016 - Oct 2018
Contributions:10 commits, 12 PRs, 51 pushes in 2 years 2 months
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