Nevada Sanchez
Co-Founder, VP Of ASIC Design at Butterfly Network, Inc.
Guilford, Connecticut, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNevada Sanchez is a seasoned hardware-software leader and co-founder of Butterfly Network, where she serves as VP of ASIC Design and leads cross-disciplinary efforts to bring ultrasound-on-chip technology to market. A MIT-educated engineer with an SB in EECS, Mathematics, and Physics, and an M.Eng in EECS, she combines deep technical depth with entrepreneurial drive. She has built and scaled large mixed-signal ASIC teams, established rapid-development workflows, and steered system-level integration of hardware, software, and cloud components for the Butterfly iQ platform. Her hands-on experience spans MEMS, CMOS, imaging algorithms, and embedded software, and she has successfully transferred technology to the world's largest semiconductor foundry for high-volume production. In addition to her leadership in industry, she has contributed to open-source verification tooling (cocotb), improving Python 3 compatibility and expanding test coverage, underscoring her commitment to robust engineering practices. Based in Guilford, Connecticut, Nevada combines a global, pragmatic engineering mindset with a drive to evangelize transformative technologies.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
M.Eng. EECS, M.Eng. EECS at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
English, Spanish
Github Skills (7)
verilog10
verification10
python10
cocotb10
test-automation10
vhdl10
testing9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
cocotb/cocotb
May 2016 - Aug 2018
cocotb: Python-based chip (RTL) verification
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:9 commits, 4 PRs, 28 comments in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Nevada primarily focused on improving the quality and functionality of the `cocotb` verification framework. Their contributions involved fixing bugs related to Python 3 compatibility, specifically addressing issues with print statements, `xrange` to `range` conversion, and handling of data types (integers and reals). They also added a new test case demonstrating the interaction between integers and real numbers.
uvmpythonvhdlcosimulationcoroutine
nevsan/cocotb
May 2016 - Jan 2020
Coroutine Co-simulation Test Bench
Contributions:15 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 9 months
benchsimulationtest-benchcoroutineco-simulation
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