Laine Walker-avina
Senior Member Of Technical Staff - DCGPU System Design at AMD
Folsom, California, United States
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Top SchoolLaine Walker-avina is a Senior Member of Technical Staff specializing in DCGPU system design with 16 years of experience in low-level firmware, embedded Linux, and storage media engineering. He has led firmware and media teams at Intel and Micron, helped bring up novel PCM/3D XPoint SSDs, and now applies that deep storage and ECC expertise to GPU system design at AMD. At Tesla he secured bootloaders, ported drivers across architectures, and led Cybertruck MCU gateway firmware while tackling real-world hardware shortages and high-speed automotive Ethernet bring-up. Comfortable across the stack from Linux kernel modules and FreeRTOS drivers to PCB layout and logic design, he pairs reverse-engineering instincts with practical productionization. Notably, he contributed to early PCM-based SSD development and has repeatedly optimized boot and networking stacks for safety-critical automotive use. Based in Folsom, CA, Laine blends systems-level curiosity with hands-on delivery on complex, high-reliability embedded platforms.
16 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BSEE Electrical Engeineering, BSEE Electrical Engeineering at University of California, DavisHigh School, High School at Laguna Creek High School
English, Spanish
Github Skills (79)
xaml10
windows10
firmware10
cpp10
calculator10
jailbreak10
csharp10
sd-card10
uwp10
esp826610
inno-setup10
flipper9
automation9
stash9
esp329
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Printrbot/Marlin
Feb 2013 - Jun 2015
Fork of Marlin for the Printrbot
Contributions:40 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 2 years 4 months
sd-card3d-printeratmelmarlin3d-printing
Printrbot/printrboard
Nov 2011 - Jun 2017
Reprap Electronics for the Printrbot
Contributions:2 releases, 37 commits, 4 pushes in 5 years 7 months
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