Jonathan Bachrach
Engineering Leader Cofounder at JITx
Berkeley, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJonathan Bachrach is an engineering leader and cofounder with 25 years of experience building hardware-aware software and founding research-driven startups from Berkeley. Currently leading JITx, he combines systems-level software, backend/devops expertise and hands-on hardware design tooling—evidenced by contributions to the widely used Chisel hardware design language and its tutorial repository where he improved build, CI and example hardware modules. His career spans academia and industry, including an adjunct professorship at UC Berkeley, founding Otherlab, and research roles at Makani and MIT, reflecting a blend of invention, teaching and productization. With a PhD in computer science, he excels at turning complex hardware-software workflows into automated, reproducible pipelines that accelerate design-to-fabrication cycles.
25 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Phd Computer Science, Phd Computer Science at University of Massachusetts Amherst
Github Skills (15)
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verilog10
script10
firrtl10
shell10
digital-design10
devops10
scripting10
build-automation10
chisel10
scala10
testing9
chip89
generator9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ucb-bar/chisel-tutorial
Jul 2012 - Jul 2015
chisel tutorial exercises and answers
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:44 commits, 2 pushes in 3 years
Contributions summary:Jonathan's contributions center around modifying Chisel code within the `ucb-bar/chisel-tutorial` repository, which appears to be a tutorial on hardware description languages. They are making changes to example hardware designs, focusing on components like GCD, Accumulator, Life, Counter, Risc, Memo, Mux, Parity, Vending Machine, and other modules. The changes often involve code adjustments and test updates to exercises and example code.
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chipsalliance/chisel
Mar 2015 - Jul 2015
Chisel: A Modern Hardware Design Language
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:83 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Jonathan primarily contributed to build and deployment scripts, demonstrating a focus on automating the build and testing processes within the Chisel project. They modified scripts to generate intermediate representations, build applications, and run tests, enhancing the project's build workflow. Furthermore, the user implemented core infrastructure aspects of the build, compilation and testing process by updating scripts used in the project's continuous integration.
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