Tommy Thorn
Worker Bee at MatX
Milpitas, California, United States
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Top SchoolTommy Thorn is a seasoned hardware-software engineer with over two decades of experience designing microarchitectures, compilers, firmware, and performance/debugging tools, currently focusing on Rust-based modeling and system work. He has a rare track record of taking projects from ISA and RTL through FPGA implementation, system simulation, and production firmware—most notably a quad-core RISC PCIe flash controller implemented on a Stratix IV and high-detail timing models for RISC-V cores. Comfortable across languages and domains, he blends deep speculative superscalar and memory-system expertise with practical VLSI/ASIC and sync/async logic skills. An active contributor to tooling and open-source build processes (e.g., improving Silice’s cross-distro builds), he pairs research-level rigor (PhD work in program analysis) with hands-on system delivery in data-center and accelerator contexts. Based in Milpitas, CA, he brings both low-level inventiveness and pragmatic integration experience to complex hardware-software co-design problems.
19 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D Computer Science Program Analysis for Security Properties, Ph.D Computer Science Program Analysis for Security Properties at Université de Rennes IMsc Computer Science, Msc Computer Science at Aarhus University
English, Danish, French
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Github Skills (11)
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Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
sylefeb/Silice
Sep 2021 - Jan 2022
Silice is an easy-to-learn, powerful hardware description language, that simplifies designing hardware algorithms with parallelism and pipelines.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:7 commits, 4 PRs, 7 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Tommy focused on improving the build and deployment process for the Silice hardware description language project. Their contributions included modifying shell scripts to install dependencies on different Linux distributions (Debian/Ubuntu vs. Fedora), optimizing the compilation process by utilizing `nproc`, and making changes to the compilation and execution steps. They also addressed file permissions and provided updates to the build scripts.
architecturesprototypinghardwaresource-languagefpga
tommythorn/Paperlike-Raspberry-Pi-4
Oct 2019 - Oct 2020
How to use a Dasung Paperlike HD-F and HD-FT with Raspberry Pi 4
Contributions:3 commits, 5 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 year
raspberry-piraspberryraspberrypiraspberry-pi-4
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