Tony Z
Sr. Principal Embedded Software Engineer at Northrop Grumman
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTony Z is a Sr. Principal Embedded Software Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience designing and delivering embedded systems, FPGA logic, and mixed-signal hardware for defense and avionics platforms. At Northrop Grumman he advances mission-critical firmware and FPGA designs using C/C++, VHDL/Verilog, and Xilinx toolchains, building on prior roles developing ARM Cortex-based firmware and multilayer PCB designs. His background in the USAF Reserve and multiple interdisciplinary projects gives him a pragmatic systems perspective—bridging firmware, hardware layout, and system integration to meet tight schedule and compliance demands. Tony pairs a Johns Hopkins MS in Computer Engineering with proven leadership on capstone-winning sensor and BLE projects, and he actively experiments with embedded designs on Hackster, reflecting a continuous maker mindset.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Science (A.S.) Engineering, Associate of Science (A.S.) Engineering at John Tyler Community CollegeAssociate of Applied Science Avionics Systems Technology, Associate of Applied Science Avionics Systems Technology at Community College of the Air ForceBachelor of Applied Science - BASc Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Commonwealth UniversityMaster of Science - MS Computer Engineering, Master of Science - MS Computer Engineering at Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering
Chinese, English
Github Skills (20)
speaker9
snowboy9
google-home9
amazon-echo9
hikvision9
muse8
robot7
asr5
api-ai5
chatgpt4
openai4
ai4
speech-recognition4
chatbot4
jekyll3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
faweiz/faweiz.github.io
Dec 2015 - Apr 2020
My GitHub Pages:
Contributions:150 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
jekyll
faweiz/FPGA
Dec 2016 - Sep 2024
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 10 months
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