Paul Sykes
Principal Embedded Software Engineer at Looking Glass
Hong Kong, China
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Sykes is a Principal Embedded Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building end-to-end embedded systems, primarily in startup environments. He has taken multiple products from clean-sheet prototypes to production, leading hardware and firmware design, FOTA, CI-driven testing, and production-line automation. His background spans bare-metal MCU firmware, embedded Linux, desktop tooling and cloud-connected IoT services—allowing him to balance low-level constraints with product and manufacturing needs. Notable wins include preventing manufacturing downtime by rapidly transitioning firmware during part shortages and delivering award-winning consumer hardware via successful Kickstarter campaigns. Based in Hong Kong, he combines pragmatic engineering with cross-disciplinary collaboration across mechanical, industrial and test engineering.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Digital Audio Systems, Master of Science (MSc), Digital Audio Systems at University of Derby
English
Github Skills (55)
kodi10
vaapi10
dac9
linux9
webradio9
bluetooth9
libretro9
breakout9
audio9
embedded9
espressif8
quad7
uart7
hardware7
git-repository7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
paulsykes/ft231x_uart_usb_power_switch
Jan 2021 - Feb 2022
FT231X USB to serial UART breakout with integrated current limited USB power switch.
Contributions:158 commits, 16 PRs, 45 pushes in 1 year 1 month
integratedserialusbbreakoutpower
AmbiLabs/web.py-auth
Nov 2017 - Jun 2020
An authentication module for web.py 0.3, code originally by jpscaletti.
Contributions:13 PRs, 6 pushes in 2 years 6 months
pythonauthenticationpasswordless
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