Andrew Barnes
Senior Embedded Software Engineer at Viper Innovations Ltd
Portishead, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAndrew Barnes is a Senior Embedded Software Engineer with 12 years of industrial experience delivering embedded and systems software across research and product teams. He has advanced from hands-on software engineer to principal manager roles at Renishaw and now provides technical leadership and mentoring at Viper Innovations, consistently balancing immediate delivery with long-term maintainability. Trained at UCL (MRes and EngD) and experienced in collaborative research, he brings a measured, tool-driven approach that reduces daily friction and unites teams around shared goals. Known for blending product delivery with continuous improvement, he often embeds automation and tooling to prevent recurring issues rather than merely firefighting them. Based in Portishead, England, he combines deep embedded firmware expertise with a knack for translating research insights into production-ready systems.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
A-Level Computer Science Design Technology Business Studies, A-Level Computer Science Design Technology Business Studies at Rednock Secondary School, DursleyBSC (HONS) Computing, BSC (HONS) Computing at University of the West of EnglandUniversity College London
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Github Skills (72)
python10
bluetooth10
embedded10
mqtt10
git10
microcontroller10
iot10
hardware10
raspberry-pi10
home-automation9
camera9
zephyr-rtos9
home-assistant9
asyncio9
mcu9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
UmbraMalison/qemu-igdvfio
Nov 2013 - Nov 2014
Contributions:22 commits in 1 year
UmbraMalison/mono-repo-tool
Apr 2023 - Apr 2023
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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