Summary
Adam Calhoon is a seasoned embedded software engineer with 18+ years of delivering production-grade software for industrial automation and robotics. He specializes in C++20, Qt6, and scalable microservice architectures, with a track record of architecting vendor-agnostic solutions for 6-DoF robot arms and industrial devices. At READY Robotics, he led ForgeOS development, built core robot device services and abstract driver interfaces, and expanded OEM support by delivering drivers for Comau, Doosan, UR, and Yaskawa, while driving latency improvements on the Kawasaki driver from 97.8ms to 24.4ms. He currently works as Embedded Project Engineer at Rockwell Automation, continuing to lead embedded and automation software initiatives in industrial environments. His earlier leadership at Unimark and hands-on firmware work at Lexmark and Microcom add breadth across RTOS, device drivers, and hardware-software integration. An Ohio State University graduate in computer science and engineering, he combines rigorous engineering practice with production-focused execution, and is based in Columbus, Ohio.
9 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
CSE, Engineering, Computer Science, CSE, Engineering, Computer Science at The Ohio State University