
Brian Angell
Verified Expert in Engineering
Leadership Developer
San Jose, United States
Toptal member since March 6, 2020
Brian is a results-driven system and product management innovator offering 30+ years of experience leading critical IT growth initiatives. He’s delivered reliable, creative, cost-saving solutions and strategies that streamline processes and impact business growth in dynamic, competitive environments. Brian is dedicated, analytical, and hands-on with a proven track record reflecting strong leadership experience that achieves transformation at the team and organizational level.
Portfolio
Experience
- C - 20 years
- C++ - 20 years
- Leadership - 20 years
- 3D - 20 years
- Hardware - 20 years
- C# - 13 years
- JavaScript - 8 years
- Python - 6 years
Availability
Preferred Environment
Android, Verilog, Python, C#, C++, C
The most amazing...
...project I've built was an engineering team (Tegra) from 1 to over 300 at NVIDIA which is shipped in multiple devices from phones, tablets, and cars.
Work Experience
Vice President of Engineering
NGCodec
- Fixed a distressed startup by cleaning up all processes used in shipping a HaaS (hardware as a service) model.
- Put into place customer release procedures, quality assurance checks, and bug processes using Jira.
- Added better communication and documentation using Confluence. Having two sites (Santa Clara, Waterloo) required much better communication across the team.
- Incorporated performance indicators to measure team output. including bug close-downs, Jenkins regression progress, hardware area, and hardware speed reviews.
- Conducted code reviews of HLS (C++ for the hardware being used for FPGA development).
Vice President of Engineering
Psikick | Everlast
- Restructured engineering and focused on production rather than theory.
- Hired software, hardware, silicon, and verification teams.
- Created product definition processes and plan of records,.
- Mentored up-and-coming leaders, expressing the need to measure and act on data.
Vice President of the Advanced Controller Group
Micron Technology
- Reorganized all of Micron's digital logic and embedded software teams into the controller group.
- Oversaw eMMC, UFS, SSD, HMC, and future DRAM and NAND controllers.
- Managed a large engineering organization with over 660 members worldwide that covered China, UK, and several US sites.
Vice President of the Engineering Mobile Business Unit
NVIDIA
- Hired and built a Tegra engineering team from scratch to 1,000 people.
- Shipped in the first Google/Motorola tablet, Motorola phone, and shipped in many cars including the first Tesla Model S and Tesla Model X.
- Responsible for several products at different development stages, from architecture through end of life.
- Built NVIDIA's first Android software and Linux kernel teams.
- Created a low-power design inside NVIDIA, given Tegra is a low-power SOC design.
Senior Director
3DFX
- Shipped 3DFX's Voodoo graphics products (Voodoo2, Voodoo Banshee, and Voodoo 3).
- Architected a triangle setup and front-end algorithms.
- Designed Verilog and C models.
- Oversaw the first Windows capable 2D engine in the Banshee product.
Experience
Tegra
I am highlighting several products here, see the wiki page below.
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tegra
Real-time Low-latency Encoding for Live Video
• https://www.xilinx.com/publications/powered-by-xilinx/Twitch-Case-Study.pdf
Voodoo 3D
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voodoo3Education
Bachelor of Science Degree in Electronics Engineering
DeVry Institute of Technology - Phoenix, AZ, USA
Certifications
Executive Education Program
Stanford University Graduate School of Business
Skills
Libraries/APIs
Node.js
Languages
C, C#, Python, JavaScript, C++, Verilog
Platforms
Android, Linux, Docker, iOS
Storage
MariaDB
Other
Leadership, 3D, Hardware, Embedded Hardware, Internet of Things (IoT), 3D Graphics, System-on-a-Chip (SoC), Integrated Circuits, HTTP Live Streaming (HLS), ARM
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