John Mcmaster
Consultant at McMaster Consulting
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Mcmaster is a consultant and hardware-focused engineer with 16 years of experience specializing in FPGAs, embedded systems, kernel programming, and radiation-hardened designs. After a formative hardware engineering role at Google, he now runs McMaster Consulting from the San Francisco Bay Area, helping clients with resilient semiconductor and FPGA solutions. He combines hands-on IC reverse engineering and failure analysis—conducted in a personally equipped garage lab with optical and scanning electron microscopy—with deep software skills from early roles in embedded and security-focused development. Known for a pragmatic, research-driven approach, he blends rigorous hardware debugging with low-level software craftsmanship to tackle mission-critical, high-reliability systems.
16 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
San Francisco State UniversityBS, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, BS, Computer Engineering, Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteCarlmont
Github Skills (139)
verilog10
lattice10
cap10
synthesis10
apple210
fuzzer10
replay10
xilinx10
gstreamer10
sega-genesis10
stream10
rom10
fpga10
vivado10
sensor10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
JohnDMcMaster/pal866
Feb 2021 - Jan 2022
Contributions:12 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
JohnDMcMaster/usbrply
Feb 2014 - Dec 2022
Replay USB messages from Wireshark (.cap) files
Contributions:1 review, 203 commits, 40 PRs in 8 years 11 months
capusbreplaywireshark
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