Peter Brink
Principal Consultant at kVA by UL
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Brink is a Principal Consultant and embedded-systems specialist based in Portland, Oregon, with three decades of experience designing real-time control systems, safety-critical firmware, and highly optimized embedded software. He blends systems engineering discipline with hands-on embedded development—often working closer to hardware than typical software roles—and emphasizes architecture, rigorous requirements, and lean, low-latency code. Peter has led engineering and functional safety teams at companies including Intel, PolySync, nLIGHT, and kVA by UL, and contributed firmware improvements to open-source projects such as PolySync/oscc for open-source car control. He is active in shaping software engineering education and standards as an ABET program evaluator and contributor to IEEE-CS SWEBoK/SWECoM updates, reflecting his commitment to raising core engineering fundamentals.
10 years of coding experience
34 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Electrical Engineering at Northwestern University
German
Github Skills (9)
firmware10
can-bus10
embedded10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
sys10
arduino10
automotive9
pid-control9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
PolySync/oscc
Jan 2017 - Apr 2017
Open Source Car Control 💻🚗🙌
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:52 commits, 16 PRs, 45 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Peter primarily contributed to the firmware of the "Open Source Car Control" project, specifically focusing on the steering and brake control modules. They implemented changes to ensure compliance with coding standards, updated the joystick commander, and added features such as driver override detection. Furthermore, they refactored the code to simplify the control algorithm and improved the integration of the brake module. These changes enhanced the overall functionality of the vehicle's control system.
car
petebrink/wg-osep
Aug 2022 - Aug 2022
The Open-Source Engineering Process WG examines how software engineering processes can be used to facilitate the certification of safety-critical systems incorporating Linux and other FOSS.
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 13 days
criticalprocess-engineeringsafety-critical-systemslinuxsafety-critical
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