Nicholas Hein
Embedded Software Engineer II - Marine HWI at Garmin
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
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Top SchoolNicholas Hein is an embedded software engineer specializing in marine hardware integration at Garmin, bringing eight years of professional experience and a lifelong passion for coding that began at age 12. He blends a formal background in software engineering and mathematics with practical expertise across firmware for 8-bit microcontrollers up to front-end web work, thriving on low-level hardware-software problems. At Garmin he focuses on developing robust embedded systems for marine products, applying combinatorial and theoretical thinking to practical integration challenges. Nicholas is relentless about learning and maintains hobby projects that explore the intersection of theory and applied engineering. Based in Kansas City, he pairs academic rigor with hands-on delivery, often surfacing nonobvious optimizations drawn from his mathematical perspective.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Software Engineering, Mathematics, Software Engineering, Mathematics at University of Wisconsin-Platteville
Stackoverflow
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9kreached
5answers
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Github Skills (8)
directshow6
directx6
console6
gcc6
rust5
frontend5
python2
compiler2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Nicholas-Hein/High-Score-Breathalyzer
Feb 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:32 commits, 2 PRs, 24 pushes in 3 months
pythonpartybreakbacrace
Open-Ocean-Software/Hexacopter-Drone-Lighting
May 2018 - Jun 2018
The lighting system on the drone.
Contributions:2 PRs, 36 pushes, 3 branches in 27 days
dronelighting
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