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 (116)
verilog10
lattice10
decompiler10
python10
synthesis10
machine-vision10
perf10
apple210
fuzzer10
xilinx10
sega-genesis10
mask10
rom10
fpga10
vivado10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
JohnDMcMaster/siliconprawn
Dec 2020 - Feb 2023
siliconpr0n.org issue tracker
Contributions:93 commits, 1 PR, 70 pushes in 2 years 2 months
JohnDMcMaster/open-tl866
Apr 2018 - Dec 2022
Open Programming Firmware for the TL866A Programmer.
Contributions:1 release, 2 reviews, 135 commits in 4 years 8 months
firmware
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