Dean Gereaux
Senior Firmware Engineer at Gatekeeper Systems, Inc.
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDean Gereaux is a senior firmware engineer and founder of Golden Bits Software with over two decades of hands-on experience delivering embedded systems, device drivers, and security solutions for IoT, medical, and consumer products. A CSSLP-certified practitioner and Microchip Security Design partner, he specializes in embedded security using ATECC/ECC608 and NXP SE050 secure elements, secure boot, PKI, and provisioning workflows across bare-metal and RTOS platforms. Dean has shipped bootloaders, kernel drivers, BLE stacks, and secure firmware for regulated medical devices and industrial systems, combining low-level C expertise with system-level architecture and threat modeling. He partners seamlessly with teams or as a solo contributor to scope projects, prove feasibility, and move designs to production while keeping manufacturability and testability in mind. Notably, he has integrated secure elements into Web3 and NRF52840/Zephyr systems and contributed security-enabled TLS/DTLS work into mbedTLS-based products. Based in San Diego, he pairs an MS in Computer Science with a long consulting track record that balances technical depth, security rigor, and pragmatic delivery.
9 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Computer Science, Master of Science (MS) Computer Science at California State University, NorthridgeBS Business Finance Economics Business, BS Business Finance Economics Business at San Diego State University
Github Skills (19)
infiniband10
freertos10
mcu10
git-repository10
bluetooth-le10
microcontroller10
hardware10
zephyr10
iot10
rtos10
bluetooth10
embedded10
architectures10
scalable10
zephyr-rtos9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
GoldenBitsSoftware/zephyr
Nov 2019 - Mar 2021
Primary Git Repository for the Zephyr Project. Zephyr is a new generation, scalable, optimized, secure RTOS for multiple hardware architectures.
Contributions:293 commits, 194 pushes, 9 branches in 1 year 4 months
architecturesscalablegit-repositorysecuresoftware-defined-radio
ReviveSolutionsInc/SW-01038_ATECCProvisioningFW
Jun 2020 - Nov 2020
Device provisioning firmware for use during manufacturing.
Contributions:4 PRs, 53 pushes, 6 branches in 4 months
zephyrprovisioningrp2040nrf52firmware
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