James Hume
Summary
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SeniorJames Hume is a principal firmware engineer with over fifteen years of embedded software expertise, specialising in BSP, device drivers and real-time application development across Freescale, ARC and ARM platforms. He has delivered robust solutions using RTOSes such as LynxOS, INTEGRITY, FreeRTOS and MQX across industries from diagnostics to semiconductor and safety-critical systems. James combines deep low-level C/C++ skills with system-level architecture judgment, having progressed from hands-on engineering roles at GE Fanuc and Semtech to technical leadership positions at companies like Utonomy and Newbury Innovation. He is comfortable navigating constrained hardware, complex toolchains and cross-platform porting, and often serves as the go-to engineer for thorny bring-up and BSP challenges. Based in the Greater Southampton area, he holds an MEng in Computer Science from the University of Warwick and is known for translating legacy designs into maintainable, testable firmware. An understated strength is his track record of bridging product requirements and manufacturable firmware, making prototypes production-ready.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (41)
v4l210
learnr9
rtsp9
rtmp9
webrtc9
streamer9
visual-studio-code-extension7
screen-capture7
pandas7
python7
data-structures6
interpreted-language6
data-analysis6
data-structure6
r6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
jameshume/jehtech
May 2015 - Jan 2023
My notes website
Contributions:1 review, 709 commits, 9 PRs in 7 years 9 months
notesnotes-website
jameshume/cstrings
Jul 2016 - Feb 2019
Contributions:2 PRs, 23 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 7 months
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