Jacob Rosenthal
Engineering Lead at Mindset Medical
Tempe, Arizona, United States
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Top SchoolJacob Rosenthal is an engineering lead with 14+ years bringing hardware products from concept to cleared medical devices, spanning component selection, PCB layout, firmware, supply chain, testing, and full-stack software. He currently leads engineering at Mindset Medical, driving an FDA-bound, deviceless computer-vision vitals product and improving data-collection reliability by optimizing WASM pipelines and building internal tooling like CameraBuddy. A longtime embedded systems specialist and open-source contributor, Jacob has improved projects from LangChainJS vector stores to Rust embedded frameworks (embassy, atsamd) and tooling like probe-rs and node-serialport, demonstrating deep low-level expertise and a knack for refactors that boost maintainability. He co-founded community initiatives HeatSync Labs and hackPHX, reflecting a persistent commitment to teaching and growing maker ecosystems. Comfortable reversing Bluetooth medical devices to enable JS SDKs and blending research-grade rigour with product delivery, he combines hands-on technical breadth with mentorship and non-profit leadership.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Systems Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Systems Engineering at Arizona State University
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Github Skills (83)
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Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
apache/mynewt-core
Mar 2017 - Aug 2018
An OS to build, deploy and securely manage billions of devices
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:62 commits, 56 PRs, 18 pushes in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Jacob contributed primarily to the low-level embedded systems aspects of the Apache Mynewt Core project. Their work involved direct modifications to board support packages (BSPs) for various Nordic nRF51 devices, including fixing linker script issues and peripheral configurations, such as SPI1 fixes. The user also implemented changes related to sensor drivers and integrating devices like the DRV2605, and Lis2ds12, and addressed code style issues by correcting double semicolons.
mynewtsecurely
atsamd-rs/atsamd
Nov 2019 - Sep 2021
Target atsamd microcontrollers using Rust
Role in this project:Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 50 commits, 40 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Jacob primarily focused on fixing pin mappings and addressing errors in the `atsamd-rs/atsamd` repository, which targets atsamd microcontrollers using Rust. Their contributions involved modifications to the `hal/src/samd51/sercom/pads.rs` and `hal/src/samd51/sercom/uart.rs` files, suggesting a focus on serial communication (SERCOM) peripheral configuration. These changes included fixing SPI example pins and adjusting code for neopixel and timer examples.
samd51nrf52840rustatmelsame54
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