Richard A Born
**** ****** **., *** **** CA *****
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www.linkedin.com/in/richard-born-2358ab4
Summary
I seek to apply my 20+ years of software development experience and attention to detail to build reliable and elegant products or services.
Core Competencies
● Languages: C++11 and C++98, C, Ruby, Perl
● OS: Linux (recently Centos), various Unixes
● Version Control: Git, SVN, Perforce
● Continuous integration: Strong emphasis on regression testing
● Focus on: Speech recognition, Electronic Design Automation
● Personal experience in: Python, Haskell, Clojure Work Experience
Senior Software Engineer, SoundHound Inc, Santa Clara, CA 08/2017 - 01/2023
● I developed speech recognition solutions deployed by a number of car brands
● custom search and prioritization algorithms for radio and music
● collaboration with linguists, data scientists.
● Linux; C++11, C++98 and Ruby; Git, Svn
Staff Software Engineer, Xilinx, Inc (now AMD), San Jose, CA 08/2006 - 06/2017
● I was primary developer/maintainer of design input, output and checkpoint for Xilinx’s flagship compilation tool, Vivado
● focus on protecting Intellectual Property from unauthorized inspection (decryption, encryption)
● I streamlined floor planning (C++ backend plus Java-based GUI) to be data-driven and versatile to many product families.
● Linux and Windows; multi-threaded C++11, Java, TCL/TK and Ruby; Perforce, CVS. Principal Software Engineer, Tharas Systems, Inc, Santa Clara, CA. 05/1999 - 07/2006
● I was primary developer for hardware design input flows
● my code transformed customer designs for co-simulation with our custom-hardware simulation accelerator.
● Linux; C++98
Electronic Design Automation roles in England and California
● Including:
GUI development
Antenna data analysis and visualization
Accelerated simulation compilation and performance analysis.
● Various Unixes; Objective-C, C++, C, Perl
Education
BS Computer Studies, University of East Anglia, England 1982 - 1985