Matt Roche
Embedded Firmware Engineer at Thorlabs
Ilchester, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolMatt Roche is an Embedded Firmware Engineer with over 11 years of professional experience and more than 15 years in software development, complemented by five years of hands-on electronics design, layout, and prototyping. Based in Ilchester, Maryland, he has been driving firmware development at Thorlabs since 2016, translating complex hardware requirements into reliable embedded systems. With a strong mathematics background from Purdue and Liberty University, he brings analytical rigor to algorithmic and low-level system problems. An independent thinker who blends hardware and software fluency, he pairs practical lab prototyping skills with production-focused firmware delivery. Outside work he’s a hardware/software tinkerer and occasional sailor, the sort of engineer who keeps his towel—and his schematics—within reach.
11 years of coding experience
BS, Mathematics, BS, Mathematics at Liberty UniversityMathematics, Mathematics at Purdue University
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Github Skills (43)
compiler10
rust10
rust-lang9
breakout9
crate9
allocator9
rust-language9
garbage-collection9
microchip7
altbeacon6
eddystone6
hal6
google-nearby6
s3cmd6
android-bluetooth6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
angst7/stm32-breakout-mk2
Oct 2015 - May 2020
ARMKit2 development / breakout board for 64-pin stm32f405
Contributions:28 commits, 1 PR, 26 pushes in 4 years 7 months
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angst7/stm32_functgen
Dec 2015 - Jun 2016
Contributions:13 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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