Johannes Walter
FPGA Team Lead at Headlands Technologies LLC
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolJohannes Walter is an FPGA team lead based in Chicago with 11 years of hands-on experience designing and verifying complex FPGA systems for high-reliability and high-performance applications. He has led hardware-software co-design efforts from concept to mass production, including multi-band GNSS receivers at Swift Navigation and trading-grade FPGA systems at Headlands Technologies. His work spans radiation-tolerant designs for CERN, high-speed RF and AXI4 interfaces for NI’s USRP, and embedded ARM firmware integration on Xilinx Zynq platforms, showing deep expertise across Verilog/VHDL, SystemVerilog/UVM, and C/C++. Johannes combines technical leadership with practical delivery—mentoring teams, managing release cycles, and collaborating closely with PCB and firmware teams to ship products. Notably, he brings uncommon domain breadth: experience in both scientific accelerator environments and commercial trading/GNSS products, which informs robust, production-focused design decisions.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Hardware Software Design, Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Hardware Software Design at University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria - Hagenberg Campus
German, English, Italian, French
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Github Skills (63)
verilog10
systemverilog9
simulator9
tla9
hardware-designs9
pattern9
regex9
systemc9
garmin9
directories9
lint9
verilator9
cpp9
ack8
command-line-tool8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
wltr/piksi_tools
Oct 2015 - Nov 2017
Contributions:27 pushes, 10 branches in 2 years
gnssgnss-receiverpiksireceiver
wltr/dotfiles
May 2015 - Mar 2025
Contributions:564 pushes, 4 branches in 9 years 11 months
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