Walter Chen
Principal Field Application Engineer
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWalter Chen is a Principal Field Application Engineer based in San Jose with over three decades of experience designing and bringing to market semiconductor, communication, and mixed-signal systems. He has led FPGA/firmware and SoC architecture efforts at companies from Bell Labs and TI to Raytheon and Flex, pairing deep analog/digital circuit expertise with hands-on firmware, Arduino GUIs, and FPGA prototyping. Walter has a strong background in wired and wireless telecom systems and product definition for high-volume LED drivers, SERDES, and PHY solutions, often using MATLAB/Simulink and SystemC for modeling. Unusually for an engineer at his level, he also completed advanced accounting training, reflecting a practical appreciation for product and business constraints. His career blends research-standard contributions (HDSL/ADSL work and standards input) with pragmatic customer-facing application engineering across startups and large OEMs.
11 years of coding experience
33 years of employment as a software developer
Advanced Certificate Accounting, Advanced Certificate Accounting at De Anza CollegeCalifornia Institute of TechnologyPh.D. E.E., Ph.D. E.E. at New York University - Polytechnic School of Engineering
English, Chinese
Github Skills (26)
linkedin-api10
jaxb10
api-client9
sdk9
api9
apache-poi9
rest-api8
mysql-database8
rest8
generator8
spring-data8
web-crawler8
restful-api7
spec7
java7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
cicidi/cicidi-home
Feb 2017 - Apr 2020
My homepage http://walter-chen.site and PDF resume generator
Contributions:91 commits, 34 PRs, 98 pushes in 3 years 2 months
spring-bootspring-datapdfweb-crawlerchen
cicidi/HelloCCD
Apr 2015 - Dec 2016
Contributions:88 pushes, 11 branches in 1 year 8 months
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