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.
12 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
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Github Skills (99)
verilog10
testbench9
fpga9
lattice9
vhdl9
asic9
uvm9
verification9
cocotb9
unit-testing-framework8
python8
icestorm8
visual-editor8
blocks8
ide8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
jrwagz/marquee-scroller
Nov 2023 - May 2026
Marquee Scroller Clock News Weather and More
Contributions:18 reviews, 24 PRs, 87 pushes in 2 years 6 months
jrwagz/compare_power_costs
Sep 2024 - Apr 2026
Utility script for analysis of power utility costs on different power utility price schedules.
Contributions:1 review, 6 PRs, 16 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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