John Rucker
Power Modeling Engineer at North Dakota State University
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Rucker is a Power Modeling Engineer with a decade of experience bridging academic research and industry productization in power, thermal, and embedded systems. Currently at Apple after roles at AMD and extensive graduate research at North Dakota State University, he specializes in modeling high-performance voltage regulators, system power/thermal characterization, and firmware-driven power optimization for APUs and GPUs. He teaches and mentors in embedded systems and digital design, bringing practical lab experience from VHDL/FPGA work to hands-on device fabrication and safety-conscious experimental processes. Comfortable across software and hardware—Node, Swift, SPIN, PASM, PCB design, and Cadence Virtuoso—he pairs ML-informed approaches with circuit-level intuition. Based in Austin, he also carves out precision time on a wood lathe, reflecting a meticulous, maker-oriented mindset that informs both his engineering and prototyping work.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Master's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at North Dakota State University
Github Skills (34)
raspberry10
peripheral10
raspberry-pi-os10
ndi9
dbus9
linux-kernel9
linux9
bluetooth9
forum9
armv89
kernel9
audio8
bus8
nodejs8
pulse7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
RuckerGauge/RG-irdPi
Sep 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:6 PRs, 335 pushes, 7 branches in 4 months
pi-zerozerowifi
JohnRucker/RiverGauge
May 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:188 pushes, 1 branch in 19 days
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