Michael Williamson
Principal Hardware Engineer at Critical Link LLC
Village of Fayetteville, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Williamson is a Principal Hardware Engineer with 15+ years designing and delivering high-performance vision and radar systems, combining system architecture, FPGA development, and embedded software to turn concepts into production hardware. He has deep expertise integrating focal plane arrays and radar signal processing across a wide sensor and FPGA portfolio (Intel, Xilinx) and repeatedly ships small-form-factor, rapid time-to-market processing solutions. His background spans system requirements, algorithm development, and board-level design—bridging VHDL/HLS, embedded Linux drivers, C/C++, and real-time DSP on SoCs and processors. At Lockheed Martin and Critical Link he led architecture, integration and test for advanced surveillance/radar demonstrations and commercial focal plane projects. Not obvious from titles: he frequently writes the trade studies and white papers that guide program decisions, blending hands-on prototyping with strategic system tradeoffs. Based in upstate New York, he holds an MS in Electrical Engineering from Syracuse and a BS from RIT.
15 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
BS Electrical Engineering, BS Electrical Engineering at Rochester Institute of TechnologyMS Electrical Engineering, MS Electrical Engineering at Syracuse University
Github Skills (43)
cocotb9
wsl29
machine-vision9
moto8
bus8
usb8
genicam8
libusb8
image-processing7
vitis7
redmine7
computer-vision6
fpga6
usb-devices6
hdl6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
CriticalLink/mitysom5csx-dart-evdk
Sep 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:6 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 3 days
mawillia/cocotb-bus
Apr 2022 - Apr 2022
Pre-packaged testbenching tools and reusable bus interfaces for cocotb
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
interfacestestingreusablebus
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