Austen Bartels
Senior Firmware Engineer at Humanoid
Malden, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAusten Bartels is a Senior Linux Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience designing and shipping hardware and embedded systems from silicon to user-space. He blends low-level expertise—RTL, board design, bootloaders, kernel customization and drivers—with high-level work building Linux microservices, GUIs, and custom networking protocols for resource-constrained, real-time devices. Austen has brought up platforms across x86, STM32, AT91SAM and AArch64, and has a track record of designing and assembling his own SBCs and bespoke serial/RPC protocols. He’s founded and run Millibyte LLC, translating customer needs into schematics, firmware, and production-ready test fixtures while also handling business operations. Colleagues rely on him to bridge hardware and software teams to diagnose elusive hardware/driver interactions and accelerate platform bring-up. Based in Malden, MA, he combines entrepreneurial grit with deep embedded systems craftsmanship.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Computer and Electrical Engineering Computer and Electrical Engineering, Computer and Electrical Engineering Computer and Electrical Engineering at Northeastern University
English
Github Skills (77)
keyboard9
argon9
firmware9
photon9
mouse9
esp329
particle9
robot9
arduino9
visual-studio-code-extension8
3d-printing8
hardware8
3d-printer8
windows7
3d7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Plasmarobo/GAPP
Aug 2015 - May 2020
Gameboy AI Player Project
Contributions:72 commits, 2 PRs, 59 pushes in 4 years 9 months
aigameboy
Plasmarobo/Disarmed
May 2016 - Nov 2021
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 6 months
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