Brian Manula

Brian Manula has a diverse background in hardware design and engineering, beginning with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan in 1996. Early experience includes a role as a Hardware Design Engineer at Lockheed Martin, focusing on RTL design in VHDL for ASIC projects, and later as a Hardware Design Consultant at Starburst Technologies, where responsibilities involved testbench development and ARM integration. At Sun Microsystems, Brian served as a Senior Hardware Design Engineer, contributing to large InfiniBand switch ASIC verification. Subsequent roles included significant positions at Oracle, where Brian became a Senior Principal Hardware Engineer and later a Principal Hardware Engineer, leading design teams and ASIC architecture. Most recently, Brian worked at Graphcore as a SoC Architect and Lead Silicon Architect and is currently an ASIC Design Engineer at Meta.