Val Ushakov
Technical Marketing Engineer at Solidigm
Greater Vancouver Metropolitan Area Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolVal Ushakov is a Technical Marketing Engineer with 25 years of hands-on experience bridging hardware engineering, silicon validation, and product-focused technical marketing in the Greater Vancouver area. An electronics graduate from Simon Fraser University, he has worked across Silicon Valley-scale teams at Intel and Solidigm and brings deep practical skills in board-level debugging, signal integrity testing, PLC controls, and lab instrumentation. He has a track record of turning validation and test insights into customer-facing collateral and technical enablement that helps translate complex silicon behavior into actionable product value. Early career roles in TRIUMF and medical device testing sharpened his systems-thinking and documentation discipline, while internships honed his PLC and thermal testing expertise. Val maintains a pragmatic, maker-oriented approach—publishing mercurial repositories—and combines field-tested lab experience with the communication finesse needed for technical marketing.
25 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT)Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Simon Fraser University
Russian, English
Github Skills (146)
hierarchy10
openbsd10
alpine-linux10
linux10
cvs10
netbsd10
src10
dynamic-data10
freebsd10
branches10
explore10
ncurses9
portable9
shell9
curses9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
nbuwe/pclu
Apr 2021 - Feb 2023
Contributions:931 commits, 37 pushes in 1 year 10 months
nbuwe/self
Nov 2022 - Mar 2025
Making the world safe for objects
Contributions:37 pushes, 39 branches, 1 tag in 2 years 4 months
minecraftsafe
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