Summary
Ashley Knutsen is a Senior Embedded Engineer with 11 years of experience designing firmware and platform APIs for consumer hardware, currently building full-stack tooling to support software and manufacturing at BRINC Drones in Seattle. She has shipped firmware and CI/CD test infrastructure across products at Amazon (Alexa/Halo), contributed to platform APIs at Sonos, and worked on core UEFI firmware and virtualization memory management at Microsoft. Comfortable across the embedded stack, Ashley blends low-level firmware debugging with production-oriented tooling and cross-functional collaboration between software, QA, and manufacturing teams. Her background includes early work on distributed storage systems and robotics, reflecting a practical curiosity for both systems-level engineering and physical device integration. Collected experience on high-volume consumer devices gives her a pragmatic focus on reliability, testability, and ship-ready engineering.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Mclean High School
UMBC
English, French