” I’ve always had a knack for FPGAs and hardware description languages. I was given my first opportunity in 2018 to learn and work with VHDL as a reliability researcher at the IRT national laboratory in France. I acted as a liaison between a research group in Israel and was tasked with translating their results…

“ Lately, I’ve been working through some of the most intense burn out I have ever felt. My second semester of graduate classes started about a month ago and my two classes [embedded systems and digital signal processing] are quite challenging. So, I’ve been brainstorming about effective ways of managing burn out for engineers. In…

” August 2023 update – I ended up dropping out of the master’s because it cost too much. These days I’m working on AWS certificates as a way of showing my continuing education without spending a fortune. We begin our story at the Eastland-Fairfield Career as a junior in high school, in the sleepy hinterlands…