Norman James
Fellow - Platform Architecture In Datacenter GPU's
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNorman James is a veteran platform architect and engineering leader with 11+ years in high-performance computing and over two decades of technical leadership across IBM, AMD, and NVIDIA. Currently a Fellow leading platform architecture for datacenter GPUs at AMD, he has built and led global teams delivering systems from government supercomputers to cloud gaming infrastructure. His background spans chip-to-system design, firmware and release engineering, and integrated solutions for AI and ML workloads, reflecting hands-on experience as well as executive strategy. Notably, he has contributed to the OpenBMC open-source project, touching firmware build processes and hardware integration—evidence of continued low-level engagement. Based in Austin, he combines rigorous academic training in electrical engineering with a track record of shrinking time-to-market through organizational and technical innovation. Colleagues know him for bridging deep systems engineering with pragmatic program leadership to deliver complex datacenter GPU platforms.
11 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Master of Science (M.S.) Electrical and Electronics Engineering at The University of Texas at AustinBachelor of Science (B.S.) Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Texas A&M UniversityWinnsboro High School
Github Skills (12)
firmware10
systemd10
embedded10
openbmc10
sys10
yocto10
networking9
build-system9
iot9
linux8
c178
c118
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
openbmc/openbmc
Oct 2015 - May 2016
OpenBMC Distribution
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:95 commits, 102 PRs, 85 pushes in 7 months
Contributions summary:Norman contributed to the OpenBMC project by making changes related to system configuration and hardware integration. They modified the build process to include necessary tools like `i2c-tools` and `screen` and implemented changes to configure and address network interfaces. The user also updated the skeleton recipe and host-ipmid, suggesting involvement in core system components and firmware updates. Their commits also show work on tarball creation for firmware updates, suggesting involvement in release engineering.
openbmcdistribution
open-power/serverwiz
Feb 2015 - Jun 2018
Contributions:33 releases, 139 commits, 20 PRs in 3 years 4 months
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