Frank Sinapi
Embedded Software Engineer at OpenTrons Labworks Inc.
Stamford, Connecticut, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFrank Sinapi is a Senior Firmware Engineer with eight years' experience designing and delivering embedded software for medical and laboratory devices. He has deep hands-on expertise in C/C++ firmware for STM32 and QNX platforms, FreeRTOS, real-time bare-metal systems, stepper/BLDC motor control, and thermal/closed-loop control for precision instruments. Frank has worked across the full embedded stack—authoring Python applications on embedded Linux SoMs, implementing secure firmware update flows, and integrating devices with factory systems and LIMS. Currently at CooperSurgical after senior roles at Opentrons, he brings practical product-focused engineering that balances low-level hardware control with production readiness. Based in Stamford, CT, he pairs rigorous RPI-trained systems thinking with repeated success shipping regulated medical-device firmware.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer & Systems Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer & Systems Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Github Skills (15)
firmware10
biology10
protocols10
robotics10
science10
buildroot7
openembedded5
android-application5
python3
automation3
vscode3
cli3
android3
emulation3
docker2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Opentrons/opentrons-modules
Nov 2021 - Dec 2022
Firmware repository for Flex and OT-2 compatible modules
Contributions:23 releases, 82 reviews, 174 commits in 1 year 1 month
firmware
Opentrons/opentrons-cpp-utils
Jun 2022 - Sep 2022
Common reusable code for use in Opentrons C++ projects
Contributions:2 reviews, 8 PRs, 19 pushes in 2 months
opentronscppreusablec-projects
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