Denis Brockus
Senior Firmware Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDenis Brockus is a Senior Firmware Engineer with over three decades of deep embedded systems experience and six years in recent roles at top cloud and consumer companies. He has architected firmware and system software across storage, wearables, GNSS, and input subsystems—shaping products from disk drive controllers to fitness watches and ChromeOS embedded controllers. A C-centric engineer and systems designer, Denis has repeatedly led ports to RTOS and embedded Linux, implemented power- and storage-efficient drivers, and designed sensor fusion and logging subsystems. At Google he measured and optimized touchpad latency and brought USB-C PD and EC code into Zephyr; at Fitbit he created NOR-flash FIFO storage and GNSS stacks. Now at AWS he continues to apply low-level performance and reliability expertise to cloud hardware-adjacent firmware problems from his base in Boulder, Colorado. Unusually for a seasoned architect, he still writes and debugs device drivers and simulation tests himself, blending hands-on coding with long-range system design.
6 years of coding experience
42 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Irvine
English
Github Skills (17)
infiniband10
freertos10
mcu10
zephyr-rtos10
git-repository10
bluetooth-le10
microcontroller10
hardware10
zephyr10
iot10
rtos10
bluetooth10
embedded10
architectures10
scalable10
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
brockus-zephyr/zephyr
Apr 2021 - Jun 2021
Primary Git Repository for the Zephyr Project. Zephyr is a new generation, scalable, optimized, secure RTOS for multiple hardware architectures.
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
architecturesscalablegit-repositorysecurereal-time
coreboot/chrome-ec
Mar 2020 - Mar 2022
Contributions:397 commits in 1 year 11 months
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