Summary
Matt West is a Principal Hardware Engineer with 14+ years at HP and over two decades in computer engineering, experienced across system architecture, FPGA and high-speed PCBA design, embedded systems, and production support. He excels at taking products through the full lifecycle—architecture, integration, deployment and field support—while building organizational capability through training and mentorship. Comfortable in multi-cultural and ambiguous environments, he thrives on cross-disciplinary challenges and persistent problem solving. Based in Corvallis, Oregon, he combines academic grounding from Oregon State with deep, hands-on hardware development at scale, often tackling the tricky intersection of system-level tradeoffs and manufacturability.
14 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering at Sierra College
California State University, Sacramento
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering at Oregon State University