Summary
John Mac Hale is a formal verification engineer with nine years of hands-on experience in silicon and software verification, currently working at Google in Cupertino. He holds an MSECE from Georgia Tech with dual concentrations in Computer Systems and VLSI/Digital Design, and cut his teeth as Design Verification lead for the SiliconJackets RISC-V CPU project. His background spans formal methods, automation, and tooling—contributing to architectural formal verification for TPUs and automating physical verification flows at Apple, often delivering significant cycle-time reductions. He has a track record of shipping practical engineering improvements across internships and production roles, from compiler optimizations at Google to a 60x GPU pipeline speedup at Bolt Graphics. Comfortable bridging hardware and software, he combines low-level RTL/debugging expertise with scripting and dashboard tooling to make verification measurable and repeatable.
10 years of coding experience