Thao Doan
Design Engineer at IBM
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolThao Doan is a seasoned Design Engineer with 14 years of experience designing high-performance mainframe processor circuits, currently based in Austin, Texas. At IBM she has owned and maintained critical ISU macros across issue queues, completion and dispatch subunits, driving schematic/layout, floorplanning, power review and timing closure through multiple tech-node migrations (45nm→32nm→22nm). She pairs deep hands-on circuit and layout skills with system-level responsibilities—leading power reporting, timing take-downs to 0ps, and hybrid methodology development to accelerate delivery. Thao’s background includes early validation and co-op roles at AMD and IBM, giving her practical testbench, characterization and debug experience with oscilloscopes, logic analyzers and SPICE. Uncommonly for a hardware-focused engineer, she has contributed to the Metasploit open-source ecosystem by improving documentation generation for msfconsole modules, showing an interest in cross-domain tooling and clear technical communication. Known for troubleshooting tight timing and power budgets, she brings a pragmatic, tool-driven approach to complex microarchitecture challenges.
14 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical Engineering, 3.75, Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical Engineering, 3.75 at The University of Texas at Austin
Github Skills (10)
metasploit10
meta-framework10
document-generation10
documents10
documentation10
meta10
ruby10
markdown-it9
html9
markdown9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
rapid7/metasploit-framework
May 2012 - May 2018
Metasploit Framework
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:80 commits, 24 PRs, 22 pushes in 6 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Thao primarily worked on module documentation for the Metasploit Framework's msfconsole. This involved creating and modifying documentation for modules, focusing on the `lib/msf/util/document_generator/normalizer.rb` file, which is responsible for generating module documentation in HTML form. The changes include defining various markdown templates and helper methods for generating module descriptions, authors, platforms, and references.
metasploitmetasploit-framework
tdoan-r7/tdoan-r7.github.io
May 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:58 pushes, 3 branches in 12 days
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