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.
11 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 (66)
mirror10
codex9
windows9
desktop9
android9
flutter9
github8
cryptocurrency8
blockchain8
cryptography8
ios8
macos8
cross-platform8
go8
consistency8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
git-cloner/codegen
Oct 2022 - Mar 2023
Contributions:38 commits, 83 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
git-cloner/gitcache
Apr 2020 - Sep 2022
When clone from github.com, build mirror cache to improve clone speed
Contributions:1 release, 188 commits, 3 PRs in 2 years 4 months
speedclonecachemirrorgit-gui
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