Phillip Trent
System Validation Software Engineer CPU & Memory Hierarchy
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolPhillip Trent is a System Validation Software Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience focused on CPU and memory hierarchy validation for ARM-based SoCs, currently validating compute-centric Apple Silicon. He specializes in kernel- and pre-/post-silicon validation, bringing together deep hardware understanding and low-level software skills across memory management, virtualization, security, and SoC architecture. His background includes system-level stress and fault-injection work at Xilinx—debugging ARM cores, SMMU, CMN-600, PCIe, and ECC systems—and collaboration with hardware designers to close RTL bugs. Phillip thrives in environments that reward perfectionism and craftsmanship, often building bespoke bare-metal tools and drivers to reproduce elusive hardware faults. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area with a University of Pennsylvania engineering degree and exchange experience at ETH Zürich, he combines academic rigor with practical prototyping experience from startups to hyperscale silicon. A not-obvious strength: he pairs deep technical debugging with cross-disciplinary communication, routinely translating silicon failure modes into actionable RTL and software fixes.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
N/A, Computer Engineering, Exchange Student, N/A, Computer Engineering, Exchange Student at ETH ZürichBachelor of Science in Engineering (B.S.E.), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science in Engineering (B.S.E.), Computer Engineering at University of Pennsylvania
English
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Github Skills (29)
echo10
church10
react-native9
expo9
directions8
swift6
nsoperation6
uitableview6
iphone6
multithreading6
objective-c6
asynchronous6
ios6
package-control6
integrate6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
echo-labs-team/the-resonance-project
May 2019 - Aug 2020
Mobile App for Echo.Church
Contributions:202 commits, 132 PRs, 186 pushes in 1 year 3 months
react-nativemobile-appchurchecho
Phillip3/PennAppsXII
Sep 2015 - Jan 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
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