Matthew Cockrell
Hardware Engineer at CHIPS Alliance
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Cockrell is a hardware engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with eight years of professional experience and a decade-long tenure at Google where he focuses on complex hardware systems. He brings deep FPGA design roots from earlier roles at Sierra Photonics and Lockheed Martin, combining defense- and photonics-grade engineering rigor with cloud-scale productization. As Chair of the CHIPS Alliance Governing Board since 2022, he helps shape open silicon standards and industry collaboration beyond his day-to-day engineering work. A UC Berkeley E.E. graduate, Matthew blends hands-on RTL/FPGA expertise with governance and standards leadership—an uncommon mix that helps translate cutting-edge hardware architectures into broadly adopted ecosystem practices.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Electrical and Electronics Engineering at UC Berkeley
Github Skills (12)
verification10
risc10
chips9
risc-v9
pulp7
cpu6
uvm6
macos1
linux1
debug1
odbc1
database-access1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mcockrell-google/CLA-test-codeonly
Dec 2020 - Jun 2021
Contributions:2 PRs, 8 pushes, 3 branches in 6 months
chipsalliance/EasyCLA-specs_and_code
Dec 2020 - Jun 2021
Contributions:5 PRs, 1 push, 3 branches in 6 months
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