Steven Seppala
Sr FPGA Designer at BlueHalo
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
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Top SchoolSteven Seppala is a senior FPGA designer with 11 years of hands-on experience in FPGA and embedded systems, currently driving hardware development at BlueHalo. He blends low-level expertise in assembly and MIPS32 with hardware-software co-design, timing closure, and verification from roles at Sandia, Raytheon, ENSCO, and industry R&D. Steven’s work spans space and satellite-focused projects and real-time DSP on Zynq platforms, and he’s known for turning ambitious prototypes into production-ready systems. An avid maker and FPGA enthusiast, he once built a PUF-based authentication system to water his plants—illustrating creative, security-minded engineering. With a master’s in computer engineering and a public GitHub showcasing his experiments, he brings rigorous research experience and persistent follow-through to complex embedded challenges.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Computer Engineering, Master’s Degree, Computer Engineering at University of New Mexico School of EngineeringBachelor of Science (BS), Computer Engineering, 3.2, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Engineering, 3.2 at University of New Mexico
English, Japanese
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Github Skills (14)
boost-python6
linux6
systemc6
visual-studio6
vhdl6
zsh6
filesystem4
reference-implementation4
spec3
camera2
api2
raspberry2
ava1
raspberry-pi1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
unm-ieee/ECE_Material
Sep 2014 - Aug 2017
Contributions:15 commits, 10 pushes in 2 years 11 months
tropical-peach/raz-sembly
Aug 2014 - Dec 2014
Contributions:37 commits in 3 months
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