Dave Nadler
Principal at Nadler & Associates
Acton, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolDave Nadler is a pragmatic, hands-on engineering executive and principal consultant with 11+ years of recorded experience and a multi-decade career delivering software, embedded systems, and avionics products. He has led large global engineering organizations (250 engineers at Interactive Data) and also run a successful consultancy that designed market-ready hardware/software products—most notably helping bring the PowerFLARM collision-warning system to more than 60,000 aircraft worldwide. Equally comfortable in low-level embedded work (contributions to the popular tinyusb project and board-specific hardware integration) and high-level product and business due diligence, he excels at making complex systems testable, maintainable, and commercially viable. Known for restructuring teams, retiring legacy systems, and improving development practices, he combines deep technical breadth with a clear understanding of financial and market realities. Based in Acton, MA, he seeks interesting consulting or full-time roles where his mix of electronics, avionics, and financial-services product experience can be applied to hard engineering and organizational challenges.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Course: Leadership for Extraordinary Performance, Course: Leadership for Extraordinary Performance at Darden School of Business, University of VirginiaBSEE, Computer Software, Electronics, BSEE, Computer Software, Electronics at MIT School of Engineering
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Github Skills (16)
c1710
embedded10
usb10
c1110
rp20409
freertos9
debug8
debugging8
makefile7
gnu-make7
arm6
winforms6
stm6
multithreading6
processor6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
hathach/tinyusb
Jan 2023 - May 2024
An open source cross-platform USB stack for embedded system
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:4 PRs, 7 comments, 2 issues in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Dave primarily contributed to the `tinyusb` project by adding support for a specific evaluation board (mimxrt1024_evk), indicating a focus on hardware integration. Their work involved modifying configuration files related to the board's flash memory and clock settings. Additionally, they addressed issues related to FreeRTOS integration, specifically adding queue labeling for debugging purposes. Furthermore, the user fixed a diagnostic format string and performed a merge operation.
usb-drivestlinkdfumidiusb-hid
DRNadler/FreeRTOS_helpers
Jun 2020 - Jun 2022
Helpers for some common problems when using FreeRTOS, GCC, and newlib.
Contributions:4 reviews, 16 commits, 2 PRs in 2 years
serialproblemshelpersnewlibfreertos
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