Zan Zhan
Director at Applied Materials
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZan Zhan is a director-level electronics and FPGA engineering leader with over 20 years of hands-on experience designing FPGAs, schematics, and hardware for high-performance semiconductor and imaging systems. At Applied Materials he now drives architecture, engineering strategy, and cross-functional delivery of scalable electronic and FPGA platforms that move from concept to high-volume manufacturing. His background includes deep RTL/VHDL expertise, board-level design and verification, and leading teams through complex product lifecycles across global customers. Having progressed from FPGA design engineer to hardware manager and now director, he combines technical depth with a track record of turning demanding customer requirements into production-ready solutions. Based in San Jose, he pairs academic training in ASIC and FPGA design with practical experience shipping systems in medical, broadcast, and semiconductor markets. An understated strength is his history of leading multi-disciplinary teams to win strategic customer engagements through high-quality, performance-driven designs.
8 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, ASIC Design, Master’s Degree, ASIC Design at San José State UniversityBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering at Hubei UniversityMaster’s Degree, FPGA Application, Master’s Degree, FPGA Application at Wuhan University of Science and Technology
English, Japanese, Chinese
Github Skills (10)
apm8
collector8
cloud-native7
ebpf7
observability7
user-guide6
amazon6
aws4
kubernetes3
amazon-eks3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
wangzan18/jenkins-agent-k8s-cicd
Jan 2020 - Jul 2021
Contributions:40 commits, 38 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
wangzan18/learnpython
Sep 2018 - Jul 2021
Contributions:31 commits, 61 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
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