Forrest Koran
Firmware Engineer at Microsoft
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolForrest Koran is a firmware engineer with a decade of experience building and debugging embedded systems that sit at the hardware/software boundary. He has shipped firmware for consumer and industrial products at Microsoft, Intel, Garmin and Stevens Water, with deep hands-on skills in embedded C, ARM, UEFI, Nordic BLE and low-power IoT design. Forrest excels at taking products from schematic and PCB layout through firmware, production test and in-market support, including root-causing field issues on Qualcomm-based devices. He’s comfortable integrating third-party drivers, automating validation and writing manufacturing/test scripts in Python, and has driven measurable improvements such as faster boot times and yield recovery. Based in Portland, Oregon, he combines systems-level thinking with pragmatic implementation—often stepping into hardware design and test-fixture work to unblock teams. An uncommon strength is his track record across both new product development and long-term in-market maintenance, bridging silos between product, validation and manufacturing.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Engineering at Portland State University
Github Skills (19)
bluepill10
hal9
firmware8
displays7
wifi7
android-application6
linux6
android5
location5
cnc-controller4
gcode4
3d-printing4
cross-platform4
energy4
prototyping4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
GekoPrime/ergodox-acrylic-svg
Jan 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
fkoran/fkoran.github.io
Aug 2016 - Dec 2017
Contributions:22 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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