Simon Gao
Principal Hardware Engineer at Fortinet
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon Gao is a Principal Hardware Engineer based in San Jose with over 15 years of hands-on experience designing high-performance, high-volume PC, server, and networking products across in-house and ODM/JDM environments. He combines deep system-architecture expertise with practical mastery of analog/digital circuits, high-speed I/O (PCIe, DDR, SATA, USB, multi-gig Ethernet), power systems, EMI mitigation and SI simulation using ADS. At Fortinet he leads definition, implementation and release-to-manufacturing of high-speed security boards, driving cross-disciplinary integration and vendor negotiations to deliver products at scale. His background includes server motherboard design at Supermicro and end-to-end motherboard development across desktop, industrial and notebook platforms, giving him a rare blend of board-level detail and program-level project management. Known for tenacious root-cause analysis, he also brings Linux-system experience and a track record of navigating JDM/ODM partnerships to achieve manufacturable designs. A Tsinghua Automation graduate, he pairs academic rigor with relentless focus on delivering reliable, production-ready hardware.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Automation, Bachelor's degree Automation at Tsinghua University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (73)
salesforce10
chatbot10
git10
go10
mirror10
codegen9
github9
language-model9
code-generation9
huggingface9
webserver9
maven-repository9
large-language-models9
vscode-extension9
chat-application9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
little51/codechain
Mar 2020 - Apr 2020
Contributions:2 releases, 68 commits, 62 pushes in 1 month
blockchaintendermint
git-cloner/classnotfound
Feb 2022 - Sep 2022
classnotfound.com.cn
Contributions:54 commits, 47 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
classnotfoundexceptionspringboot2mavenmaven-repository
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