Michael Hernandez
Memory Functional Validation Engineer
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Hernandez is a Memory Functional Validation Engineer with a decade of technical experience and over four years focused on memory controller validation for Intel Xeon server CPUs. Based in Portland, Oregon, he blends an electrical and electronics engineering background with hands-on QA and validation practices to ensure high-reliability server memory subsystems. His career path — spanning laboratory research in molecular biology, classroom teaching in Japan, and product quality and logistics roles at IKEA — gives him a rare mix of experimental rigor, clear communication, and process-driven problem solving. At Intel he translates complex hardware specifications into robust validation plans and testbenches, uncovering subtle functional and corner-case issues. Colleagues describe him as methodical and adaptable, able to bridge cross-functional teams from firmware to silicon validation. He brings a scientist’s curiosity to hardware QA, often applying analytical techniques from his research background to streamline debugging and root-cause analysis.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor's degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Oregon Institute of TechnologyBachelor’s Degree Biology Major Chemistry Minor, Bachelor’s Degree Biology Major Chemistry Minor at Portland State University
English, Japanese
Github Skills (1)
prototyping9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
BraulioHdez/hello-world
Feb 2016 - Feb 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 3 branches in 1 day
psu-epl/psu-epl.github.com
Apr 2017 - Jan 2020
Homepage for Portland State University's Electronics Prototyping Lab
Contributions:15 commits, 8 pushes in 2 years 10 months
electronicsportlandprototypinglabportland-state-university
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