Dean Reading
Software Developer at Financial Trading
Gold Coast City, Queensland, Australia
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Top SchoolDean Reading is a software developer with 11 years of experience building low-latency, readable C++ systems for finance, embedded devices, and research instruments. He combines firmware-level precision (MCU peripherals, DMA, real-time drivers) with higher-level capabilities like .NET GUIs, Linux web services, and cloud deployment. Across roles at Samsung Research America, J1-LED, and academic labs he has taken projects from concept through hardware bring-up to deployed products, and is named on four USPTO filings. He maintains practical open-source tooling such as an actively used Arduino seven-segment library, reflecting a hands-on, user-oriented engineering style. Dean’s background in PCB design, RF/antenna work and signal processing means he bridges hardware and software in ways many software engineers do not. Based on solid academic performance and diverse industry experience, he thrives on adapting to new domains and shipping maintainable, performant solutions.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Ryan Catholic CollegeBachelor of Engineering/Bachelor of Science, Electrical and Electronics Engineering/Physics, GPA of 4.0 (out of 4), Bachelor of Engineering/Bachelor of Science, Electrical and Electronics Engineering/Physics, GPA of 4.0 (out of 4) at Oregon State UniversityBachelor of Engineering/Bachelor of Science, Electrical and Electronics Engineering/Physics, GPA of 6.94 (out of 7), Bachelor of Engineering/Bachelor of Science, Electrical and Electronics Engineering/Physics, GPA of 6.94 (out of 7) at James Cook University
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Github Skills (17)
c-language10
lib10
hardware-interface10
sys10
interfacing10
embedded10
cprogramming-language10
arduino10
ec9
el9
keras6
abstract-class6
mask6
lstm6
masking6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
DeanIsMe/SevSeg
Nov 2014 - Nov 2021
Seven segment display controller library for Arduino
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:8 releases, 7 reviews, 57 commits in 7 years
Contributions summary:Dean appears to be the primary author and maintainer of the SevSeg library, focusing on providing a user-friendly interface for controlling 7-segment displays with Arduino. Their contributions include the initial design and implementation, along with subsequent bug fixes, feature additions like brightness control, hexadecimal support, and the ability to disable the decimal point. They also adapted the library for different hardware configurations, including common anode/cathode displays, and included the support for active-high/low switching using transistors.
segment-displaycontrollerserialarduino-librarybluepill
DeanIsMe/Wavepaper_Release
Mar 2015 - Jan 2023
Contributions:12 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 11 months
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