Nick McCarty
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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SeniorNick McCarty is a seasoned firmware and embedded systems expert with a track record of delivering reliable, secure, high-performance solutions across satellite, industrial, and edge AI domains. He currently leads firmware and embedded systems at InPhase Embedded, helping teams bring up custom boards, implement secure boot and OTA pipelines, and design multi-ISA architectures for heterogeneous SoCs. Previously as Firmware Engineering Manager at Kymeta, he guided a 6-member team to launch the LEO satellite product line, engineered a parallel FPGA processing pipeline that reduced latency from 8 ms to under 1 ms and cut CPU usage by 40%, while mentoring engineers into senior roles and establishing risk-free development practices and OKRs. At PHYTEC, as Director of Product Development, he drove Yocto/Android BSPs, spearheaded global collaboration that halved development costs and boosted revenue, and secured early silicon access from TI and NXP to stay ahead of competitors. His early career at Witekio focused on low-level drivers and cross-team collaboration across Linux and Windows Embedded platforms, building robust embedded solutions across multiple silicon platforms. Based in Seattle, he holds a BSEE from Seattle University and is known for turning complex constraints into practical, auditable architecture with hands-on mentorship.
12 years of coding experience
Github Skills (11)
macos4
homebrew4
micro-controllers2
build-system1
controllers1
bluepill1
stm321
docker1
stlink1
containers1
hal1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
phytec-labs/peaks
Jun 2020 - Jul 2020
Build system for PHYTEC BSPs using Docker containers
Contributions:1 release, 27 PRs, 33 pushes in 1 month
containersdocker-containersdockerbuild-system
phytec-labs/bsp-docker-build-envs
May 2020 - May 2020
Contributions:1 release, 5 PRs, 31 pushes in 1 day
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