Kieran Nichols
Principal Instrumentation Software Engineer
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
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Top SchoolKieran Nichols is a Principal Instrumentation and Embedded Software Engineer with eight years of experience designing reliable hardware–software systems for complex instrumentation, robotics, and connected devices. He specializes in modernizing legacy control stacks and building reliability-first frameworks with advanced logging, telemetry, and automated diagnostics that measurably increase uptime and accelerate root-cause analysis. Kieran’s work spans optics, fluidics, sensors, and embedded platforms, delivering scalable, data-driven solutions that improve reproducibility between R&D and production. His PhD work in biomechanics and hands-on prosthetics research inform a rare combination of embedded systems expertise and human-centered mechanical design. He has led cross-functional investigations and HIL testing programs (Wi‑Fi 6, BLE, IoT) and optimized real-time controllers across heterogeneous OSes and hardware, including low-latency Raspberry Pi deployments. Based in Madison, WI, he brings both academic rigor and pragmatic engineering to bridge research prototypes into robust instrument platforms.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Mechanical Engineering: Biomechanics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Mechanical Engineering: Biomechanics at University of Wisconsin-MadisonKinesiology Kinesiology and Exercise Science, Kinesiology Kinesiology and Exercise Science at Penn State University
Github Skills (5)
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
kieran-nichols/kieran-nichols.github.io
May 2018 - Nov 2024
Personal website under construction. Feel free to send me recommendations.
Contributions:2 PRs, 94 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 7 months
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kieran-nichols/catkin_ws_tadaros
Sep 2022 - Feb 2023
Contributions:2 releases, 18 commits, 3 PRs in 4 months
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