Brett Nicholas
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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Top SchoolBrett Nicholas is an embedded systems engineer and technical lead with 11 years of experience designing and shipping firmware for robotics, security appliances, and low-power sensor devices. He led the embedded software team at Sarcos Robotics to productionize the Guardian XO exoskeleton—architecting fault-tolerant joint-control firmware, CI/CD-driven hardware-in-the-loop testing, and secure boot/update mechanisms for distributed microcontrollers. His background spans FPGA/SoC design, Yocto/Linux kernel work, and sensor-processing on constrained devices, reflecting a pragmatic blend of hardware bring-up and software architecture. Trained at Dartmouth (B.E. and M.S.), he pairs academic rigor in embedded security with hands-on collaboration with electrical teams and contract manufacturers. A maker who “builds things that do things,” Brett emphasizes developer velocity and measurable reliability in complex electro-mechanical systems.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Engineering Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Engineering Science at Dartmouth CollegeBachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth
Github Skills (155)
visual-studio-code-extension10
firmware10
signature-verification10
authentication10
fhe10
jce10
security10
c9910
embedded10
os-independent10
encryption10
32-bit10
portable10
bootloader10
sniffer10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
bigbrett/wolfHSM
Feb 2024 - Apr 2025
HSM library that uses wolfCrypt as it's fallback crypto
Contributions:11 PRs, 195 pushes, 41 branches in 1 year 1 month
bigbrett/wolfssl
May 2023 - Mar 2025
The wolfSSL library is a small, fast, portable implementation of TLS/SSL for embedded devices to the cloud. wolfSSL supports up to TLS 1.3!
Contributions:4 PRs, 135 pushes, 29 branches in 1 year 10 months
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