Brenda S
Software Engineer at Emerson
Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrenda S is a seasoned software engineer with 15 years of deep experience in embedded systems and device driver development, from 8051 and ARM7TDMI firmware to Linux on Cortex-A9. She has strong practical expertise in C, C++, and Python and a proven track record maintaining and upstream-aligning out-of-tree kernel patches for real-time Linux distributions. At National Instruments she led cross-functional efforts on time-synchronized Ethernet products, PTP timestamping, mDNS network discovery, and performance-critical ARM NEON optimizations for instrumentation hardware. Comfortable reading register maps and datasheets, she combines low-level hardware understanding with system-level software design and open-source stewardship. Based in Saint Paul, MN, she prefers local roles and brings a rare blend of kernel maintenance, embedded networking, and product-focused engineering to complex hardware-software integration challenges.
15 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at The University of Texas at AustinNondegree, Nondegree at San Antonio College
Github Skills (108)
realtime10
yocto10
thunderbird10
hid10
linux10
linux-kernel10
midi10
audio10
thunderbird-extension10
music10
kernel10
yocto-layer10
qt9
taskbar9
reverse-engineering9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
bstreiff/quake2
Jan 2014 - Jan 2015
Contributions:80 commits, 7 pushes, 4 branches in 11 months
bstreiff/meta-nilrt
Sep 2020 - Dec 2023
Yocto layer to implement NI Linux RT distribution.
Contributions:39 pushes, 35 branches in 3 years 2 months
linuxyocto-layeriotdistributionyocto
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