Derek Snell
Accounting Clerk at Disciples Overseas Ministries of the Christian Church
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDerek Snell is an embedded systems engineer with over 15 years of experience designing firmware, hardware-aware drivers, and customer-facing prototypes, now bringing his technical and administrative skills to an accounting role in Indianapolis. He spent nearly two decades as an FAE and systems engineer at NXP and Future Electronics, where he grew designs, created demos, and authored tools and documentation that accelerated product adoption. His hands-on contributions to the Zephyr RTOS—adding power profiles, DVFS, MIPI DSI support, DMA tweaks, and clock fixes for NXP platforms—underscore deep MCU and low-level systems expertise. Comfortable in front of customers and in the lab, he pairs strong communication and troubleshooting with a track record of turning complex embedded requirements into working prototypes. A Rose‑Hulman computer engineering graduate, he also has uncommon experience bridging ASIC architecture, firmware, and field application engineering across automotive, industrial, and consumer domains.
5 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Github Skills (17)
dma10
embedded-language10
microcontroller10
zephyr10
rtos10
embedded10
boa10
power-management9
mi9
c178
c118
spi7
i2c7
realtime4
bluetooth-le4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr
Mar 2021 - Apr 2025
Primary Git Repository for the Zephyr Project. Zephyr is a new generation, scalable, optimized, secure RTOS for multiple hardware architectures.
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:256 reviews, 38 PRs, 2 branches in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Derek Snell's contributions focused on enhancing the Zephyr RTOS for NXP-based embedded systems. He implemented power profiles and DVFS support on the mimxrt595_evk board by leveraging the PCA9420 PMIC. He added support for MIPI DSI display on the mimxrt1160_evk, incorporated DMA configurations, and addressed clocking issues within the NXP RT series of MCUs. His work also included documentation updates and adjustments to board configurations for various NXP platforms.
bluetooth-lereal-timezephyrsecuregit-repository
DerekSnell/zephyr
Mar 2021 - Aug 2023
Primary Git Repository for the Zephyr Project. Zephyr is a new generation, scalable, optimized, secure RTOS for multiple hardware architectures.
Contributions:14 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 5 months
architecturesscalablegit-repositorysecuresoftware-defined-radio
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