Summary
Olin Lathrop is a seasoned hardware and embedded software engineer and founder/principal of Embed Inc, a consultancy specializing in embedded microcontrollers and the surrounding hardware, firmware, and software. He brings decades of hands-on leadership in turning multi-disciplinary projects into production-ready products, with strengths in digital control, digital power conversion, and analog instrumentation. Earlier in his career, he contributed to Hewlett Packard, Raster Technologies, Apollo Computer, and Radianse, and is a co-inventor of patents relating to display controller hardware—texture mapping (US 5,097,427) and quadratic interpolation (US 5,109,481)—with research in ray tracing. As founder of Embed since 1988, he has designed and arranged for production of products Embed sells directly, spanning multiple industries. He holds a Master of Engineering in electrical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and is based in Littleton, Massachusetts, bringing entrepreneurial grit and deep technical depth to embedded system delivery.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering in electrical engineering, Electrical and software engineering, Master of Engineering in electrical engineering, Electrical and software engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
German