Nicholas Strong
Senior Product Security Engineer at AMD
Huntsville-Decatur-Albertville Area United States
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Top SchoolNicholas Strong is a Senior Product Security Engineer with nine years of experience designing and securing complex embedded systems for aerospace and defense. He combines deep expertise in digital logic, FPGA/ASIC architecture, and firmware—having led FMCW radar and high-speed DSP projects on Xilinx and Kintex Ultrascale platforms and contributed to the SM-3 Block IB advanced signal processor. Nicholas brings practical hardware-software integration skills (VHDL, SystemVerilog/UVM, Python, embedded C) and has built CI/tooling and org-wide GitHub workflows that streamlined verification and team collaboration. He’s driven by mission-focused engineering, demonstrated as lead firmware engineer on a NASA CubeSat program where he recruited and mentored undergraduates. Outside typical security work, he has implemented high-speed JESD/GTH links and 10G Ethernet on FPGA transceivers—skills that bridge hardware performance and product security in ways not obvious from a job title alone.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering at University of South AlabamaGulf Shores High SchoolMaster of Science in Engineering - MSE, Computer Engineering, Master of Science in Engineering - MSE, Computer Engineering at The University of Alabama in HuntsvilleEngineering, Engineering at James H Faulkner State Community College
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Github Skills (91)
3d10
game-development10
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game-engine9
godot9
xilinx9
embedded-software9
windows9
command-line9
cmd9
console9
placement9
vscode9
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Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
nbstrong/nand_avalon
Dec 2021 - Apr 2022
Contributions:39 commits, 39 pushes, 6 branches in 4 months
nbstrong/DE1_SoC_Computer
Nov 2021 - Apr 2022
Contributions:100 commits, 1 PR, 77 pushes in 5 months
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