Garrett Mace
Senior Staff New Product Development Engineer at SPAN
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGarrett Mace is a Senior Staff New Product Development Engineer with 11 years of product-focused embedded systems experience and a career spanning startups and founder-led ventures in industrial, art, medical, and green energy tech. He excels at taking concepts from prototype to production—writing ARM/RTOS firmware one hour, building test fixtures the next, and presenting demos to investors soon after—while also scaling R&D infrastructure and hiring strong teams. His hands-on toolkit includes C, Python, CAD/CNC, embedded hardware design, automated test systems, and lab/production tooling, gained through roles at SPAN, ReThink Medical, and his own macetech LLC. Known for clear communication, thorough documentation, and a knack for spotting hires beyond resumes, he combines manager-level planning with individual contributor agility. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he frequently bridges electrical, mechanical, and software disciplines to solve cross-domain product challenges.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Electrical Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Github Skills (53)
nrf5284010
neopixel10
dac10
arduino-library10
rgb10
matrix9
rpi-pico9
arduino9
xilinx8
rp20408
firmware8
animation7
raspberry-pi-pico7
lattice7
slack-bot7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
macetech/RGBShadesAudio
Dec 2015 - Oct 2018
Contributions:9 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
macetech/RGBShades
Nov 2014 - Oct 2021
Firmware for RGB Shades (Arduino-compatible sunglasses with 16x5 matrix of WS2812B pixels)
Contributions:25 commits, 2 PRs, 14 pushes in 7 years
rp2040nrf52840arduino-compatiblefirmwareneopixel
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