David Jenkins
Software Developer at Scooter Software
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolDavid Jenkins is a versatile Software Developer and Algorithm Engineer with 8+ years of recent experience and a multi-decade background in embedded systems, firmware, kernel ports, and device drivers. He has a strong track record porting Linux kernels and userspace utilities across diverse SBC platforms and processors, and has shipped board-level drivers, bootloaders, and rapid-prototyping models for automotive and telecom systems. Comfortable from low-level assembly to high-level system modeling in Matlab/Simulink, he pairs hands-on debugging with mentoring and technical leadership roles. Quick to self-learn new technologies under tight timelines, he has supported commercial kernel vendors and contributed patches to open-source projects like OpenIPMI. Based in Madison, WI, he combines formal EE and control-theory training with practical expertise in revision-control and production toolchains to turn hardware constraints into reliable software.
8 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
MSEE, Control Theory, MSEE, Control Theory at The Ohio State UniversityBSEE, Electrical Engineering, BSEE, Electrical Engineering at Brigham Young University
Spanish
Github Skills (23)
beyond-compare10
python9
context-menu9
menu9
raspberry-pi9
home-automation8
iot8
plug8
mqtt8
home-assistant8
xfce8
asyncio7
privacy7
automation7
eclipse6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (4)
ScooterSoftware/BCompare-LinuxMenus
Sep 2018 - May 2020
Beyond Compare context menu plug-ins for Linux file managers
Contributions:1 review, 4 commits, 5 PRs in 1 year 7 months
managersmenuxfcelinuxbeyond-compare
freedib/lldbmi2
Feb 2018 - Feb 2018
A simple MI interface to LLDB for Eclipse
Contributions:29 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 6 days
gdbjavaeclipselldb
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