Justin Wagner
Senior Staff Engineer at Qualcomm
Midvale, Utah, United States
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Top SchoolJustin Wagner is a Senior Staff Engineer with 12 years of experience building and leading FPGA, networking, and platform engineering efforts across data center and carrier environments. He currently heads FPGA strategy and CI/CD for Qualcomm’s Orion server reference platforms, having created a novel platform-management abstraction and containerized a full vendor toolchain. Previously he led teams at L3Harris to accelerate hardware-in-the-loop modeling and simulation, overhauling automated testing to save roughly $800K per year. His background spans FPGA logic and timing closure, high-speed networking, PCIe, and system-level design, paired with hands-on software skills in Python, C/C++, Linux, and CI tooling. Justin’s career started in networking entrepreneurship and rural ISP operations, giving him uncommon operational insight into real-world network constraints and resilient system design. Based in Midvale, Utah, he combines deep hardware expertise with pragmatic platform-level leadership that influences system architecture and delivery.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BS Electrical Engineering, BS Electrical Engineering at Eastern Washington UniversityM.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering, M.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Portuguese, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (135)
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
jrwagz/dotfiles
Jan 2022 - Feb 2025
My configuration. Minimalist, but helps save a few thousand keystrokes a day.
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
configurationaliasminimalistdayconfig
jrwagz/mac-dev-playbook
Jan 2022 - Feb 2025
Mac setup and configuration via Ansible.
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
ansiblemacdotfilesmacosmac-setup
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