Tyler Blount
Senior Design Verification Engineer
Mesa, Arizona, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTyler Blount is a Senior Design Verification Engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in UVM-based functional verification, mixed-signal validation, and automation for memory controllers, communication buses, asynchronous machines, and IRQ handlers. He has developed UVM testbenches and real-number models for analog circuits, contributing to power and haptics device verification across large teams. His background in radio and telecommunications spans satellite communications, 4G LTE and 5G NR standards, and propagation modeling, bringing system-level RF insight to digital verification. Based in Mesa, Arizona, Tyler also contributes to open-source game engine work—adding nuanced weapon mechanics to the FreeSpace 2 Open project—demonstrating a knack for low-level, performance-sensitive code.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, VLSI and Microelectronics, Master's degree, VLSI and Microelectronics at Illinois Institute of TechnologyElectrical Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Colorado School of Mines
Github Skills (6)
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c-language10
gun10
game-physics10
game-development10
cprogramming-language10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
scp-fs2open/fs2open.github.com
Apr 2015 - Jan 2023
Origin Repository for SCP FreeSpace 2 Open
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:112 reviews, 227 commits, 206 PRs in 7 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Tyler primarily contributed to the implementation of new weapon features within the FreeSpace 2 Open project. Their work included adding and modifying weapon flags and modifiers, particularly the "apply recoil" functionality. They also introduced features like variable fire delays and weapon damage decay. These changes likely involved modifications to core game code, affecting combat mechanics and weapon behavior.
freespacescp
scp-fs2open/PCS2
Oct 2015 - Oct 2021
A tool to convert and edit models for use in FreeSpace 2 and FreeSpace Open
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 7 comments in 6 years
freespace
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