Summary
Peter Csaszar is a Principal Firmware Engineer with 12+ years of experience designing and shipping embedded software and firmware for consumer and industrial devices, now based in Cupertino. He has driven architecture and implementation across the full product lifecycle at Apple, Google and Juul Labs, delivering measurable improvements such as a 35% firmware size reduction and 30% resilience gain in noisy EM environments. A strong C/C++ Linux backend developer with past Qt/GTK and web experience, he pairs low-level microcontroller expertise with systems-level debugging, trace and telemetry work. He has repeatedly led cross-functional teams to integrate third-party hardware, improve firmware upgrade robustness, and shape future SoC interconnects. Multilingual and an enthusiastic electronics hobbyist, he blends formal computer engineering knowledge with hands-on hardware tinkering. His profile reflects a rare mix of firmware craftsmanship, product-focused architecture, and practical tooling for debug and trace at scale.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc. Electrical Engineering, B.Sc. Electrical Engineering at Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Ph.D. Computer Science, Ph.D. Computer Science at University of Illinois Chicago
English, Hungarian, German