Andrew Shepard
Embedded Software Engineer at Independent Consultant
Sacramento, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Shepard is an embedded software engineer with eight years as a consultant and over two decades of hands-on experience designing firmware and device drivers for ARM Cortex microcontrollers and wireless systems. He specializes in low-level bring-up and validation of multicore MCU peripherals (ADC/DAC, I2C, SPI, UART, CAN, USB), RTOS integration (FreeRTOS, ThreadX), and wireless stacks from Wi‑Fi to drone protocols like PX4/MAVLink. Comfortable across C/C++, assembly, Python and Java, he pairs deep hardware debugging skills (JTAG/SWD, logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, protocol analyzers) with practical toolchain experience (Keil, MCUxpresso, Git/SVN). His background spans semiconductor OEMs, defense avionics, PoS Wi‑Fi certification, and startup ASIC work, giving him a rare blend of protocol-level expertise and system architecture insight. Based in Sacramento, he consults on embedded, wireless, and real-time projects and often surfaces subtle integration issues early thanks to his end-to-end testing and bring-up focus.
8 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
California State University, Sacramento
Github Skills (23)
mach8
wave7
kernel6
mruby6
in-progress6
gem56
operating-system5
extensible5
data-scraping5
ruby5
patch5
infiniband4
bacpypes4
get-started4
linux4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
akhandekar/Truck-emissions
Jan 2019 - Apr 2019
Contributions:380 pushes in 2 months
akshephard/Influx_Dataframe_Client
Jul 2018 - Feb 2019
Contributions:36 commits, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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