Markus Perkins
FPGA Design Engineer at Hitachi Rail
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolMarkus Perkins is an FPGA Design Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience designing and delivering safety-critical hardware solutions, now applying his expertise at Hitachi Rail after an eight-year tenure at Thales. He holds a BE in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from DHBW and combines deep RTL, verification and system-integration skills with practical experience in transportation and defense domains. Based in Boston, he brings a methodical, engineering-driven approach to complex FPGA challenges and a track record of moving concepts into production-ready designs. A genuine electronics and computing enthusiast who enjoys Japanese culture, he blends technical rigor with curious, hobbyist-level exploration that often surfaces innovative, out-of-the-box solutions.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University (DHBW)
English, German
Github Skills (81)
verilog10
quartus10
vhdl10
lua10
c9910
asic10
risc10
voxel-engine10
azerothcore10
xbmc10
fpga10
opengl10
crossword10
minetest10
cpu10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
m42uko/model-ghdl
Jan 2015 - Jan 2018
Contributions:1 release, 63 commits, 18 pushes in 3 years
m42uko/linux-fsia6b
Nov 2018 - Jan 2020
Kernel driver and support software to use a FlySky FS-iA6B 14-channel RC receiver as a general purpose game controller in Linux.
Contributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 10 pushes in 1 year 2 months
kernelcontrollergame-controllerdriverkernel-driver
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