Taylor Johnston is a Design Verification Engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in SystemVerilog and UVM, currently applying his expertise to hardware security verification at Apple after eight years as a Staff Security DVE at Qualcomm. He holds an M.S. in Computer Science and a B.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, pairing solid academic foundations with deep industry practice. Taylor’s background includes multiple internships at NVIDIA and Qualcomm, giving him early exposure to GPU and SoC verification flows that inform his approach to secure hardware design. Known for rigorous testbench development and a focus on security-focused verification strategies, he brings a pragmatic blend of protocol-level understanding and system-level verification discipline to complex silicon projects.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison
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