Cindy Deng
Embedded Software Engineer at Zipline
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolCindy Deng is an embedded software engineer with nine years of experience building real-time avionics and IoT systems, currently developing embedded avionics software at Zipline in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has deep hands-on expertise with ThreadX/Azure RTOS, MCU/MPU ports, networking stacks (Ethernet, TCP/IP, MQTT) and firmware toolchains, gained through multiple roles at Microsoft’s Azure IoT teams. Cindy combines low-level firmware development with CI/CD, hardware testbench validation, and collaborations with semiconductor partners (ST, NXP, Renesas, Microchip), enabling production-ready device platforms. Her background in robotics and high-voltage battery systems from Carnegie Mellon Racing and as an ECE/MS graduate informs a systems-level approach to safety-critical embedded designs. She’s explored on-device ML (TensorFlow Lite, microNPU) and secure device provisioning workflows, reflecting a curiosity for emerging edge capabilities beyond traditional firmware. Known for mentoring and leading cross-functional teams, she brings both practical implementation skills and program-level coordination to complex embedded products.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins UniversityHomestead High SchoolBachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Computer Engineering & Robotics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Computer Engineering & Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (43)
mbed10
azure-rtos10
serializer10
get-started10
iot-device10
windows10
cicd10
azure-iothub10
azure-iot-edge10
sdk10
azure-devops10
azure-pipelines10
azure10
microsoft9
python9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/iot-edge-config
Apr 2021 - Nov 2021
Azure IoT Edge configuration tool - a CLI script which installs and configures IoT Edge device
Contributions:13 releases, 38 reviews, 82 commits in 6 months
azure-iot-edgeazure-iotedgeazureiot-edge
cindydeng1998/getting-started
Aug 2020 - Apr 2021
This Getting Started guide is a series of tutorials that shows device developers how to start working with Azure RTOS.
Contributions:48 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
rtosazure-rtosazure
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