Jon Masters Email & Phone Number

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Google Uber Technical Lead responsible for Arm server architecture for Arm server SoCs, Arm architecture and platform standards, and Arm software ecosystem

Raleigh, Nc, Us

Arm server and automotive architecture, architecture and platform standards, and software ecosystem

Santa Clara , Ca, Us

Jon Masters was Vice President of Software at NUVIA, Inc. a high performance Arm server microprocessor startup headquartered in Santa Clara, California (Acquired by Qualcomm)

Raleigh, Nc, Us

Jon was a Computer Architect and Distinguished Engineer at Red Hat, where he drove various activities related to high performance computer micro-architecture. He was also Chief Arm Architect responsible for creating the Red Hat Arm team.He lead the Red Hat mitigation effort for the “Meltdown” and “Spectre” security vulnerabilities, creating working reproducers prior to public disclosure. He has also proposed hardware micro-architectural solutions to Spectre-like attacks, and presented on these as well as the vulnerabilities themselves.In his role as Chief Arm Architect, Jon was responsible for technically leading research and development as well as industry standardization initiatives related to the 64-bit ARM Architecture (known as ARMv8 or AArch64). He presented at the public unveiling of the 64-bit ARMv8 Architecture, at the announcement of the first 64-bit ARM chip implementation (and was involved in the bring-up of this and other ARMv8 silicon), and gave the world's first ever demonstration of a general purpose OS running on real 64-bit ARM silicon. He even once pedal powered an ARM server running a live demo to showcase low energy Cloud and Enterprise Arm-Powered solutions in action.Jon also lead the technical committee of the Linaro Enterprise Group, collaborating with other Operating System vendors, and worked on additional technical standardization for the ARM Architecture, especially in relation to servers (he was a lead author on both the ARM Server Base System Architecture and ARM Server Base Boot Requirements specifications). In addition, Jon works with early stage ARMv8 pre-and-post silicon implementations and has been involved in diagnostics and debugging activities to isolate and correct issues that affect early tape-outs of modern SoC designs. He has also assisted in the design of validation and verification tooling for Arm servers.

Jon led Professional Services work for Montavista (Embedded Linux) clients through the UK franchise. This involved traveling to many different customer locations, quickly coming up to speed on their development environment (as well as their particular field of endeavor - everything from data analytics to traffic monitoring systems), solving challenging technical problems (especially within the Linux kernel), and providing advice for their future development efforts.

Jon was technical editor of Linux User & Developer following stints both before and after as a regular author and columnist. He currently writes a monthly column on the Linux kernel.

Abingdon, Oxfordshire, Gb

(Resonance Instruments was acquired by Oxford Instruments)Jon remained with the company following acquisition to complete the Linux based Xilinx Virtex II Pro FPGA platform running within the "MQC" product. The (renamed) "MQC" platform was productized by Oxford Instruments and had a successful life in various applications.

Jon was the sole Linux engineer and worked with the SoC designer to build a robust embedded Linux platform based upon one of the first ports of Linux to the Xilinx Virtex II Pro FPGA. Jon wrote the bootloader for this platform, ported the kernel to the custom PowerPC 405-based SoC design, and built the userspace Operating System which was used by another engineer to develop additional real time scientific software. Jon later (literally) (co)write the book on Building Embedded Linux Systems (O'Reilly). The "RIQC" (Resonance Instruments QC) platform was acquired by Oxford Instruments as part of their acquisition of Resonance.

Bsc, Computer Science

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