Paul Wood
Senior System Software Engineer at NVIDIA
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Wood is a Senior System Software Engineer with eight years of hands-on experience spanning firmware, embedded systems, and pre-silicon validation, currently at NVIDIA after firmware work at Samsung Semiconductor. He combines low-level C/embedded-C expertise and hardware design (FPGA, PCB, Zephyr RTOS) with higher-level skills in Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, AWS, and Linux toolchains. At Intel he debugged Xeon memory controllers and mesh buses, and his academic work included a published paper on magnetic tunneling junction transistors—evidence of strong analytical and technical-writing abilities. Paul has shipped performance-focused projects like a SHA‑256 hardware accelerator with 10–20x speedups over software and led a LoRaWAN air-quality sensor full-stack prototype using AWS services. He’s a pragmatic tinkerer who moves between silicon, firmware, and cloud to close the loop from prototype to production, and he prefers Arch Linux for his development environment.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Arts - AA, ENGINEERING, Associate of Arts - AA, ENGINEERING at Valencia CollegeBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering at University of Central Florida
English, Korean
Github Skills (81)
command-line-interface10
workspace10
bluetooth10
cli10
multiplexer10
react-components9
material-ui9
embedded9
hardware9
aws9
react9
nvme9
typescript9
shell8
scalable8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
UCF-Aether/aether-firmware
Feb 2022 - Apr 2022
The firmware for Aether using Zephyr RTOS
Contributions:1 release, 64 commits, 11 PRs in 2 months
nrf52firmwarezerortoszephyr-rtos
paulwood15/HKN-SAE-Project
May 2019 - Feb 2020
A collaboration between UCF's HKN Zeta Chi and SAE club to expand SAE's measurement network for their formula racecar.
Contributions:171 commits, 162 pushes, 27 branches in 9 months
racecarucfcollaborationchimeasurement
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