Michael Kazda
Senior Software Engineer at IBM
City of Poughkeepsie, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Kazda is a Senior Software Engineer with over 30 years of experience architecting physical synthesis and post-route optimization tools for ASIC and server microprocessor design at IBM. He led the re-engineering of Placement Driven Synthesis and invented RAPIDS, delivering measurable multi-million dollar savings, improved routability and power, and eliminating months of potential time-to-market delay for IBM chips. His work directly accelerated the POWER7 microprocessor program and shaped flows used across IBM’s Server and OEM ASIC businesses. With an M.S. in Computer Science from RPI, he combines deep EDA, microprocessor, and test-automation expertise with hands-on software architecture. Based in Poughkeepsie, NY, he remains an IBM technologist who quietly blends research-grade rigor with production-focused impact.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
B.S, Computer Science, B.S, Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (6)
nodejs6
mongodb6
eda4
api3
cad3
vlsi3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
kazdam/RpnCalc
Aug 2014 - Sep 2015
Contributions:3 commits, 1 push in 1 year 1 month
kazdam/mplace
Aug 2015 - Aug 2018
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
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