Edward Mandy
Principal Firmware Engineering Manager at Littelfuse
Rapid City, South Dakota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEdward Mandy is a Principal Firmware Engineering Manager with over a decade of hands-on experience designing firmware and embedded systems, currently leading firmware efforts at Littelfuse from Rapid City, SD. He founded and runs 7400 Circuits LLC, where he continues to deliver microcontroller programming, embedded Linux solutions, schematic design and Verilog-based product development—demonstrating both technical depth and entrepreneurial drive. His background includes kernel- and driver-level work for Linux, BSD and Windows, real-time networking tools, and shipping mobile games, showing versatility across low-level systems and consumer-facing software. Trained in computer science at South Dakota Mines, he pairs a practitioner’s mastery of C and microcontrollers with systems-level intuition, often bridging hardware and software in product-focused engineering. Notably, his career blends long-term contractor experience with leadership roles, giving him a rare perspective on both sustaining legacy systems and accelerating new embedded product development.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Prerequisites, Prerequisites at Anoka Ramsey Community CollegeBachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at South Dakota School of Mines and TechnologyHS Diploma, HS Diploma at Blaine
Github Skills (61)
lattice10
displays10
xilinx10
kernel-module10
cyclone10
raspberry10
joystick10
intel9
wiringpi9
pi9
wordpress9
arcade9
bitstream9
adc9
i2c9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
TheFlav/Freeplay_joystick_i2c
Dec 2021 - May 2022
Freeplay i2c joystick firmware using attiny817, attiny1627, etc.
Contributions:20 releases, 342 commits, 131 pushes in 5 months
attiny817i2cfirmwarejoystick
TheFlav/Freeplay-Support
Jul 2017 - Jun 2022
Contributions:35 commits, 11 PRs, 45 pushes in 4 years 11 months
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