Tom Zakrajsek
System Software Engineer at Quantum Design
Poway, California, United States
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Top SchoolTom Zakrajsek is a seasoned system software engineer with 30+ years of experience designing firmware and low-level software for high-performance devices, currently driving system software at Quantum Design. He spent two decades at Qualcomm in progressively senior roles—leading secure systems, web engine security and privacy, platform graphics, and ASIC performance—bringing deep expertise in embedded systems, security, and multimedia. Tom is comfortable owning both architecture and hands-on implementation, shipping production drivers, decoders, and platform components across consumer and industrial products. Based in Poway, CA, he pairs a UC San Diego CS foundation with a pragmatic focus on clean, maintainable code that meets rigorous performance and security constraints. An understated strength is his track record of bridging silicon, firmware, and application stacks to turn complex hardware capabilities into reliable, user-facing features.
10 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
University of California San Diego
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (10)
blockchain9
solana9
bitcoin9
ledger9
scale8
rust8
cryptocurrency8
ethereum8
scalable8
rust-lang1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
veryoddthomas/home
May 2016 - Dec 2023
Contributions:44 pushes, 7 branches in 7 years 7 months
dotfilesdot-filesdotzsh
veryoddthomas/solana
Jul 2020 - Dec 2023
Web-Scale Blockchain for fast, secure, scalable, decentralized apps and marketplaces.
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 5 months
securescalablesolanamarketplacesdapp
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