Summary
Olin Lathrop is a founder and principal electrical engineer with over four decades of hands-on experience designing embedded microcontroller systems, hardware, and firmware, and leading cross-disciplinary teams to bring products from concept to production. He runs Embed Inc., a consulting and product company that delivers custom embedded solutions across industries, drawing on deep expertise in microcontroller circuitry, digital control, power conversion, and analog instrumentation. Earlier roles include hardware and firmware design for location-resolution systems and pioneering graphics subsystem architecture and patents in the 1980s, demonstrating a rare blend of low-level firmware skill and high-performance hardware design. Based in Littleton, Massachusetts, he combines practical manufacturing experience with academic grounding from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and is known for solving messy, multi-technology problems that others tend to hand off.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering in electrical engineering Electrical and software engineering, Master of Engineering in electrical engineering Electrical and software engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
German