Michael Olsen
Senior Engineer at IBM
Town of Putnam Valley, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Olsen is a senior engineer with over three decades of hands-on experience spanning firmware, OS and iOS development, processor and wireless power management, and optical communications modeling. Grounded in an Industrial Ph.D. and M.Sc. in fiber-optic communications, he has driven firmware and CMOS device modeling work at IBM while also building niche tools like semiconductor laser simulators and text-to-speech/email parsing utilities for early mobile platforms. He prefers small, well-scoped projects where he can own execution and bring passion to technically demanding problems, and he is candid about his exacting standards for code quality. Comfortable across hardware-software boundaries, he excels at improving simulation accuracy and runtime for circuit and interconnect models and at porting wireless protocols to new platforms. Based in Putnam Valley, NY, he brings a rare blend of academic depth and pragmatic engineering—skeptical of assumptions, including his own—that produces robust, efficient solutions.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Industrial Ph.D., Fiber optic communications, Industrial Ph.D., Fiber optic communications at Danish Academy of Technical Sciences (ATV)High-school diploma, Math-phys, High-school diploma, Math-phys at Rysensteen HighschoolM.Sc. EE, Fiber optic communications, M.Sc. EE, Fiber optic communications at Danmarks Tekniske Universitet
Danish, English, German, French
Github Skills (2)
firmware10
openpower9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (3)
open-power/hostboot
Nov 2015 - Apr 2021
System initialization firmware for Power systems
Contributions:408 commits in 5 years 6 months
firmware
open-power/sbe
Oct 2015 - Apr 2021
Self-Boot Engine
Contributions:235 commits in 5 years 7 months
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