John Schiltz
Firmware Engineer II at Milwaukee Tool
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Schiltz is a firmware engineer with seven years of hands-on experience building embedded systems at Milwaukee Tool, progressing from intern to Firmware Engineer II. He specializes in systems-level programming and has shipped internal diagnostic tools, Bluetooth client libraries, and usage-tracking features for connected products. Comfortable across the full firmware lifecycle, he blends low-level debugging with practical product-focused delivery. Based in Milwaukee, he leverages a Computer Science background from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee to solve real-world hardware-software integration challenges. Notably, his early internship work laid the foundation for production diagnostic tooling that continues to inform the team’s approach to reliability and observability. He brings a pragmatic, iterative mindset to scaling embedded features in commercial power tools.
7 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Systems Programming, Computer Science, Systems Programming at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Github Skills (29)
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
schiltz3/Arduino-Data-Logger
Jan 2019 - Dec 2022
Contributions:26 commits, 26 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years
Antares-Network/CSSC-Bot
Aug 2022 - Jan 2023
CSSC-Bot is a bot written to help the students of the UWM CS Smart Club Discord server to get the correct roles for their classes, jobs and years. To join, join the Student Hub and search for CS Smart Club. https://discord.gg/JEdgkZWgkD
Contributions:17 reviews, 203 commits, 55 PRs in 4 months
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