Maclain Lobdell
Staff Technical Marketing Engineer, IoT Edge AI at Synaptics Incorporated
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMaclain Lobdell is a seasoned embedded systems and IoT engineering leader with over two decades of hands-on experience and 11 years in senior roles, now focusing on IoT Edge AI and device management. He blends deep technical expertise in microcontrollers, power management, network protocols, and embedded security with product and partner-facing roles that drove adoption of Mbed OS and Pelion Device Management. Maclain has led cross-functional teams from startup hardware and energy-storage inventions to large ecosystem partnerships at Arm, and contributed to open-source tooling such as pyocd’s flash algorithm framework. With an MBA and a track record of turning technical features into customer solutions, he excels at aligning product strategy, engineering delivery, and partner success. Based in Austin, he brings a pragmatic, collaborative style and a knack for recruiting small high-impact teams that scale platform adoption.
11 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
BS Electrical Engineering, BS Electrical Engineering at Purdue UniversityMBA, MBA at St.Edward's University
Github Skills (10)
embedded10
cortex-m10
sys10
assembler9
assembly9
arm9
python8
batchfile7
batch7
script7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
pyocd/FlashAlgo
May 2017 - Jul 2017
Framework for building Arm Cortex-M "FLM" style flash programming algorithms.
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 3 PRs, 6 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Maclain primarily contributed to the flash programming algorithm framework, focusing on supporting a specific flash memory device (NCS36510) with dual flash bank support. Their work involved modifying core header files, updating flash algorithm APIs, and removing unnecessary global memory declarations. Additionally, the user added a batch script and instructions to launch uVision in the proper environment for building the flash algo code.
cortexflasharm-cortexarmcortex-m
jacobjohnson-ON/pyOCD
Nov 2015 - Jul 2017
Contributions:30 commits in 1 year 8 months
python-librarycortexpythondebuggingcmsis
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