Pete Dietl
Firmware Engineer at TerraFirma Robotics
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPete Dietl is a firmware engineer with a decade of hands-on experience designing low-level software and hardware interfaces across telecoms, robotics, and defense sectors. Based in Austin, he has shipped firmware at companies from ADTRAN to Tesla, Worldcoin, Anduril, and now TerraFirma Robotics, blending embedded C and Rust expertise with deep GNU/Linux and bootloader know-how. He enjoys digging into computer architecture, compilers, and the gritty details of boot and bring-up, turning fuzzy hardware constraints into reliable firmware. An active contributor to Unix tooling, he’s improved the makeself self-extracting shell script to be more robust and parseable by external tools—illustrating his knack for practical, interoperable fixes.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at The University of Alabama
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Github Skills (7)
sh10
script10
shell10
unix10
scripting10
compression8
linux7
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
megastep/makeself
Oct 2019 - Jun 2021
A self-extracting archiving tool for Unix systems, in 100% shell script.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 9 PRs, 10 comments in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Pete primarily contributed to the shell script `makeself.sh` by modifying various aspects of its functionality. They addressed issues related to single-quote escaping, replaced calls to `MS_Help` with `MS_Usage`, and modified the `dd` command usage. The user also made changes to allow parsing by external tools.
unixtarball7zipcompressionlinux
jmhossler/pong
Feb 2017 - Mar 2023
Pong in C
Contributions:1 release, 6 PRs, 8 pushes in 6 years 2 months
pong
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