Michael Auchter
Senior Firmware Engineer at Axon
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Auchter is a Senior Firmware Engineer with over 15 years focused on embedded systems and a 27-year technology career that spans network engineering, IT leadership, and large-scale infrastructure projects. Currently at Axon, he brings deep hardware interfacing expertise honed during an 11-year tenure as a Principal Software Engineer at National Instruments and refined through open-source contributions to EttusResearch's widely used UHD driver. He specializes in firmware, GPIO/libgpiod-based hardware access, EEPROM parsing, and pragmatic optimizations like conditional CPLD reprogramming that reduce risk and downtime. Based in New York and trained in computer engineering at Rose‑Hulman, he enjoys digging into the nuts-and-bolts of technology and mentoring teams to bridge the gap between systems-level detail and operational reliability.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Github Skills (12)
gpio10
eeprom10
embedded10
uhd10
sys10
python10
interfacing10
hardware-interface10
sdl9
cpd9
fpga9
driver9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
EttusResearch/uhd
Sep 2019 - Jun 2021
The USRP™ Hardware Driver Repository
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:17 commits in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Michael contributed to the MPM (Peripheral Manager) component within the UHD (USRP Hardware Driver) repository, focusing on hardware-related functionalities. They added a new Gpio helper class utilizing libgpiod for GPIO access, replacing the deprecated sysfs approach. Additionally, they modified the max10_cpld_flash_ctrl to only reprogram the CPLD if necessary, optimizing the update process. The user also made changes related to handling EEPROM data and added support for parsing EEPROMs with tag-length-value format, which indicates expertise in hardware interfacing and embedded systems.
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EttusResearch/usrp-firmware
Aug 2019 - Jul 2021
Contributions:114 commits, 4 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 11 months
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