Todd Yamakawa
Staff Emulation Engineer
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTodd Yamakawa is a Staff Emulation Engineer with nine years of deep experience in emulation, FPGA platforms, and CPU design verification, currently driving emulation at Tenstorrent in Austin. He has a strong automation and tooling background—building CI systems, job submission GUIs, data aggregation/visualization pipelines and bespoke debug utilities—across Jenkins, Bamboo, Gerrit and GitHub. Todd’s hands-on work spans Synopsys, Cadence and Mentor emulators and FPGA families, plus SV/UVM testbenches, formal datapath verification, and bare-metal random-instruction stress testing. He is fluent in scripting and systems languages (Ruby, Bash, C/C++, Python, Tcl) and has repeatedly shaved hours off flows by automating backdoor memory transfers and hybrid hardware/software models. Known for mentoring interns and lifting team infrastructure, he combines systems-level debugging with toolsmithing to make complex pre-silicon bring-ups repeatable and observable. An electrical engineering graduate from the University of Hawaii, he pairs hardware insight with software craftsmanship to tackle subtle verification and emulation challenges.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Kealakehe High SchoolBachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical Engineering at University of Hawaii at Manoa
English
Github Skills (60)
tui10
batch-rename10
filesystem10
ncurses10
file-search10
usb10
keyboard10
cli-application10
vim10
file-manager10
taskwarrior10
console-application10
stdin10
android10
command-line10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
toddyamakawa/vim
May 2019 - Aug 2021
Contributions:124 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
toddyamakawa/nnn
Apr 2020 - Jan 2021
:tangerine: The missing terminal file manager for X.
Contributions:35 pushes, 7 branches in 9 months
linuxtangerinemissingfilesystemterminal
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