About two and a half years of production embedded work: C on STM32 and Microchip PIC, Python tools that make slow manual processes self-serve, and five bench fixtures that stopped defects before they reached the field. MS in Computer Engineering from BYU.
Most embedded teams split the work three ways: someone writes the firmware, someone tests it, and someone builds the tooling around it. The last few years covered all three. At Speedhut, that meant owning production C for a custom automotive gauge line as the only firmware engineer on staff, then building the Python programmer and the validation process to go with it.
The through line is catching failure early. At LiveView Technologies, five bench fixtures caught code defects before shipment, including a speaker volume mismatch over SIP audio. At Speedhut, a legacy board revision that once took a month to recover became a self-serve task any technician could run. Reading the schematic and writing the C means test gets built around how the product actually fails, not how the spec says it should.
Before embedded, four and a half years at Dell EMC restoring business-critical enterprise storage within 1 to 3 hour severity SLAs, ranked top 3 for case volume out of roughly 20 to 30 engineers. That pressure built the habit that carries through everything since: find root cause fast, write it down, and make the fix repeatable.
Supported Verilog and digital design instruction for the undergraduate computer engineering program while finishing the MS.
A 40 hour per week contract to verify and package internal UAV tooling for customer use on counter-drone systems.
Only firmware engineer at hire, owning production C for a custom automotive gauge line: STM32 and Microchip PIC, FreeRTOS and bare metal, in an estimated several thousand units built each year.
Built test hardware and production features for a deployed remote camera fleet, held alongside the Dell EMC role through August 2022.
Isolated root cause and restored business-critical enterprise Linux storage under severity SLAs for four and a half years.
Based in Provo, Utah, and open to embedded test and validation, device automation, and firmware roles. The fastest way to reach Jared is email; LinkedIn works too.