Summary
Oliver Stone is a Consulting FPGA Engineer with over 20 years of deep experience designing high-performance ASICs and FPGAs for communications systems, currently advising clients from Greater Boston. He combines hands-on mastery of Verilog, SystemC, C++, Python and HLS (Cadence and Xilinx) with practical electrical and optical design, lab debug and board rework skills across 5G DFE, Ethernet, SONET and PCIe domains. Oliver has held principal and architect roles at companies including NanoSemi/MaxLinear and Oclaro, driving complex hardware architectures from concept through silicon. He is particularly skilled at bridging algorithmic/SystemC models to synthesizable RTL and back again for real-world debug and performance tuning. With advanced training in computer architecture (MSEE, Northwestern) and a BSEE from Yale, he brings both rigorous academic grounding and rare cross-disciplinary shop-floor expertise. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic solutions where system-level theory meets messy lab realities.
11 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at The Derryfield School
BSEE Engineering, BSEE Engineering at Yale University
MSEE Computer Architecture, MSEE Computer Architecture at Northwestern University
Research Science Institute