Neil Puthuff
Senior Embedded Software Engineer at OmniTrust
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNeil Puthuff is a Senior Embedded Software Engineer based in California with a broad 20+ year career focused on embedded systems, secure boot and update pipelines, and real-time networking for autonomous and critical infrastructure. He currently integrates information security into embedded products at OmniTrust, and previously led ROS 2 and automotive DDS integration efforts at RTI to modernize robotics and power-grid systems. Neil combines deep C/C++ and RTOS expertise with hardware design—he still designs circuits and PCBs and has driven high-performance trace and replay debugger hardware at Green Hills. His background spans medical devices, FPGA and low-level crypto acceleration, and startup CTO roles, giving him rare full-stack embedded-to-infrastructure perspective. He holds a B.Sc. in Management and a track record of patents and industry-recognized products that reflect both engineering depth and practical product impact.
9 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Management, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Management at University of Phoenix
Github Skills (24)
signal10
lidar10
ros10
describe9
standardized9
automotive9
specification9
safety-critical9
idl8
wan8
robotics8
datatypes8
middleware6
real-time-data4
integrate4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
neil-rti/video_streaming
Nov 2021 - Feb 2022
Contributions:34 commits in 3 months
neil-rti/ros2_mp_latency
Mar 2021 - Oct 2021
Contributions:16 commits, 10 pushes in 7 months
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