Michael Fox
Senior Technical Leader - Silicon Operations
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Fox is a hands-on senior technical leader with 13 years of focused experience in silicon operations and semiconductor test engineering, currently leading Silicon Operations at Cisco in San Jose. He has a deep background in system-level test, 93K chip testing, and signal integrity from roles at Cavium, Quantenna, Apple, Rambus, and others, translating lab experiments into reliable production flows. Known for a collaborative "let's try and iterate" leadership style, he thrives setting up labs, prototyping, and turning small daily progress into product-grade solutions. His career blends low-level hardware testing expertise with programming and automation skills that keep complex test systems running at scale. Based in Silicon Valley, he combines institutional memory from legacy semiconductor tools with a modern operational mindset, making him effective at bridging engineering and operations. An engineer by training (BS ECE, Utah State), he brings decades of practical chip-test wisdom often overlooked in software-centric teams.
13 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Electrical and Computer Engineering at Utah State University
English, Portuguese
Github Skills (29)
linux8
memory-management6
memory-allocation6
portable5
garbage-collector4
bitbake4
collector4
cpp4
garbage3
cross-platform3
freebsd3
nix3
nixos3
termios2
garbage-collection2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
gitfoxi/Stdf
Oct 2014 - Jun 2016
Contributions:43 commits in 1 year 8 months
gitfoxi/ascii-vector-avc
Oct 2014 - Dec 2014
Contributions:10 commits in 1 month
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