Chris Koknat
Senior Engineer at NVIDIA
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolChris Koknat is a Senior Engineer in Silicon Valley with two decades of applied experience building automation and test tools for semiconductor customers, currently driving production reliability at NVIDIA. He specializes in Python, Perl, TCL, C, and shell scripting to automate regression systems, KPI reporting, and large-scale STIL to ATE translations used worldwide by DFT teams. Chris combines deep systems knowledge with practical DevOps—cron-driven, multiprocessing pipelines integrated with LSF and Perforce—and has a track record of converting one-off fixes into productionized, unit-tested tooling. A contributor to CPAN and a 1000+ Stack Overflow reputation holder, he pairs hands-on coding with mentoring and customer-facing roles from trainings to pre-sales. Based in San Jose with an EE degree from the University of Cincinnati, he uniquely blends low-level device/test expertise with modern AI/deep learning familiarity.
6 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Electrical Engineering, BS, Electrical Engineering at University of Cincinnati
Stackoverflow
3,393reputation
3.6mreached
142answers
11questions
awk
top-5%
Github Skills (40)
kotlin10
r10
fortran10
pdf10
matlab10
kdiff310
perl10
languagetool10
lua10
php10
text-processing10
callgraph10
swift10
tcl10
graphviz10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
koknat/dif
Jul 2020 - Nov 2022
'dif' is a Linux preprocessing front end to gvimdiff/meld/kompare
Contributions:1 review, 207 commits, 1 PR in 2 years 4 months
frontendlinuxpreprocessingperldiff
koknat/callGraph
Apr 2021 - Nov 2022
A multi-language tool which parses source code for function definitions and calls
Contributions:5 reviews, 87 commits, 6 PRs in 1 year 7 months
languagetoolcallgraphfortrangolanglua
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