Ted Kern
Senior EDA Tools Engineer at NVIDIA
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolTed Kern is a Senior EDA Tools Engineer at NVIDIA with 11 years of multidisciplinary experience spanning robotics, computer vision, PCB design, and test automation. Trained at Carnegie Mellon with both BS and MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering, he has delivered hardware-software systems from space-grade power electronics to robot perception stacks at NASA JPL and Nimble Robotics. Ted blends low-level C++/ROS expertise and Linux packaging/CI skills with hands-on PCB layout and mixed-reality UX interests, making him effective at bridging prototyping and production. At NVIDIA he focuses on tooling and automation for complex EDA workflows while drawing on a background of teaching rapid prototyping and managing lab infrastructure. Notably, he has a history of cleaning up and standardizing large codebases and build systems—transformations that repeatedly reduced false positives in perception and streamlined team delivery. Based in Portland, he pairs systems-level rigor with a curiosity for novel human-computer interaction methods.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
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Github Skills (95)
python10
distributed-tracing10
instrumentation10
opentelemetry10
ros10
torrent10
api10
sdk10
pylint10
python-modules10
nodes10
bittorrent10
lists10
python-extension10
intellisense10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
Arnatious/Arnatious.github.io
Feb 2015 - Jun 2021
Contributions:43 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 5 months
Arnatious/dotfiles_old
Jul 2016 - Jan 2025
Contributions:97 pushes, 5 branches in 8 years 7 months
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