Michael Olsen
Senior Engineer at IBM
Town of Putnam Valley, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Olsen is a senior engineer with over three decades of hands-on experience spanning firmware, OS and iOS development, processor and wireless power management, and optical communications modeling. Grounded in an Industrial Ph.D. and M.Sc. in fiber-optic communications, he has driven firmware and CMOS device modeling work at IBM while also building niche tools like semiconductor laser simulators and text-to-speech/email parsing utilities for early mobile platforms. He prefers small, well-scoped projects where he can own execution and bring passion to technically demanding problems, and he is candid about his exacting standards for code quality. Comfortable across hardware-software boundaries, he excels at improving simulation accuracy and runtime for circuit and interconnect models and at porting wireless protocols to new platforms. Based in Putnam Valley, NY, he brings a rare blend of academic depth and pragmatic engineering—skeptical of assumptions, including his own—that produces robust, efficient solutions.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Industrial Ph.D., Fiber optic communications, Industrial Ph.D., Fiber optic communications at Danish Academy of Technical Sciences (ATV)High-school diploma, Math-phys, High-school diploma, Math-phys at Rysensteen HighschoolM.Sc. EE, Fiber optic communications, M.Sc. EE, Fiber optic communications at Danmarks Tekniske Universitet
Danish, English, German, French
Github Skills (8)
bootloader10
firmware10
software-update10
rockchip10
u-boot10
ppc64le10
vms10
power-systems10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (3)
open-power/hostboot
Nov 2015 - Apr 2021
System initialization firmware for Power systems
Contributions:408 commits in 5 years 6 months
ppc64levmsfirmwarerockchippower
open-power/sbe
Oct 2015 - Apr 2021
Self-Boot Engine
Contributions:235 commits in 5 years 7 months
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