Stephen Bade

Stephen Bade is an accomplished software engineer with extensive experience in the field, currently serving at AMD since February 2017. Prior to this role, Stephen worked at Xilinx from February 2017 to April 2023, contributing to the Vivado IPI team on next generation tools and architectures. Stephen's career includes significant positions at Stretch, Inc., LitePoint, Adaptive Silicon, Inc., Virtio, and Synopsys, where expertise in FPGA routing, tool development, and virtual platform development was showcased. Stephen holds a BS and MS in Electrical Engineering, as well as a minor in Math, all earned from Brigham Young University between 1987 and 1994.