Ken Dockser
Senior Principal Architect at Tenstorrent Inc.
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKen Dockser is a Senior Principal Architect based in Austin with a multi-decade track record designing high-performance, energy-efficient RISC and CISC processors and their floating-point and integer arithmetic units. He has led architecture and microarchitecture efforts across industry leaders (IBM, Qualcomm, Rivos, Tenstorrent), driving ISA extensions, custom instructions, and ML/crypto accelerators while serving on RISC-V governance bodies. Ken combines deep gate-level expertise—debugging FPUs and SIMD units—with systems-level product definition, verification, DFT, and placement-and-routing collaboration to move designs from spec to silicon. His work balances raw performance with low-power constraints, evidenced by production CPUs, server cores, and supercomputer-class contributions dating back to BlueGene/L. With 39 U.S. patents and several publications, he is an influential inventor who also bridges hardware and software co-design in cross-functional teams. A less obvious strength is his sustained ability to translate novel arithmetic research into practical, high-volume SoC features that industry consorts adopt.
7 years of coding experience
36 years of employment as a software developer
Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering at Tufts University
Github Skills (33)
crypto10
risc-v10
risc10
instruction-set10
spike10
simulator9
cryptography9
v-model8
architecture8
computer-architecture8
vector7
openembedded6
opcodes5
elf5
landscape5
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
riscv/riscv-crypto
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
RISC-V cryptography extensions standardisation work.
Contributions:4 releases, 96 reviews, 236 commits in 1 year
risc-vcryptographystandardisationcryptorisc
riscv/riscv-bfloat16
May 2022 - Nov 2022
Contributions:8 releases, 24 reviews, 20 commits in 6 months
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