Brian Starnes
Lead Software Engineer at General Atomics, Aeronautical Systems Inc.
Poway, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Starnes is a Lead Software Engineer with 13+ years building mission-critical embedded systems and leading teams at General Atomics Aeronautical Systems. He combines hands-on firmware and low-level software design with program management—tracking schedules, budgets, and requirements while mentoring engineers and conducting design and code reviews. Comfortable taking projects from concept through hardware and software implementation, he has also co-founded a hardware-focused startup where he managed product development, manufacturing, and business operations. Based in Poway, California, he brings a pragmatic, build-first mindset and a passion for tackling high-tech challenges that produce tangible, real-world systems.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
English
Github Skills (3)
firmware7
embedded7
backend4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
brewbit/brewbit-protobuf-messages
Feb 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:5 pushes in 14 days
brewbit/model-t-electronics
Oct 2012 - Apr 2015
Contributions:39 commits, 5 pushes in 2 years 6 months
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