David Schmenk
Chief Cynic Officer at Starlight XPress
Incline Village, Nevada, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Schmenk is a seasoned systems and firmware engineer with 12+ years of focused experience designing rugged, reliable hardware-software systems and a career that stretches back to early OS and storage work. As Chief Cynic Officer at Solipsistic Systems and long-time contractor for Starlight XPress, he architects firmware and detection software for precision imaging systems, bringing deep hands-on expertise in embedded systems and astronomy cameras. His background includes pioneering disk-array firmware and early NT kernel collaboration at Compaq, and a formative stint at NVIDIA as an early technical leader, evidence of comfort operating at the intersection of product, performance, and low-level engineering. Based in Incline Village, NV with a BS in Computer & Electrical Engineering from Purdue, he pairs contrarian creativity with practical system design—often keeping the whole plan “in his head” while shipping dependable, mission-critical code.
12 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer & Electrical Engineering, BS, Computer & Electrical Engineering at Purdue University
Github Skills (11)
650210
apple210
commodore10
retrocomputing10
assembler10
c6410
programming-language9
proto9
raspberry8
client-server7
raspberry-pi5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
dschmenk/Apple2CharGen
Jul 2017 - Jul 2018
Contributions:5 commits in 1 year
dschmenk/PLASMA
May 2014 - Jan 2023
Proto Language AsSeMbler for All (formerly Apple)
Contributions:861 commits in 8 years 9 months
protoassemblerretrocomputingapple26502
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