Summary
Hugh Mclarty is a seasoned software engineer with 13+ years of recent industry experience and a four-decade career building low-level, high-performance systems across Windows and Linux. He specializes in industrial IoT and CNC machine data collection (Fanuc FOCAS, MTConnect, Mitsubishi EZSocket, Haas MDC), edge deployment, and near-real-time analytics, while also designing multi-platform libraries in C/C++ and C#. Hugh brings deep expertise in imaging and document formats (TIFF, PDF/PDF-R), scanner standards (TWAIN/PDF/R ISO 23504-1), and compiler design. He pairs hands-on systems work—debugging large FOSS projects, DSP for speech synthesis, and image-processing pipelines—with strong documentation and standards leadership. Currently at Mitsubishi Electric Automation, he previously led adapter and edge software work at MachineMetrics and contributed to TWAIN working-group specifications. Outside engineering he studies cognitive science and cognitive-linguistics, bringing an unusual cross-disciplinary perspective to human-centered system design.
12 years of coding experience
38 years of employment as a software developer
transferred to Stanford., Mathematics, transferred to Stanford., Mathematics at Portland State University
BS, Electrical Engineering, BS, Electrical Engineering at Stanford University