Peter Dirks
Senior Software Engineer at Garmin
Overland Park, Kansas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Dirks is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of embedded systems and UI/UX experience, currently building outdoor handhelds and wearables at Garmin where his work touches over 2 million active devices. He specializes in C/C++ and embedded Linux toolchains, pairing low-level firmware development with higher-level UI features across more than 15 device projects. A practical problem-solver, he has a track record of porting and localizing codebases, optimizing performance, and managing complex git workflows from his early intern days through full-time roles. Based in Overland Park, KS, he also brings web and Node.js experience from earlier projects, and a habit of applying desktop/Linux tooling (gdb, valgrind, cmake) to squeeze reliability and efficiency from constrained devices.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
University of Missouri
English, French, Chinese
Github Skills (7)
operating-system8
bootstrap8
kernel7
linux6
apache2
python1
desktop1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
PDirks/assemblySnippets
Oct 2014 - May 2015
Contributions:13 commits, 1 push in 6 months
PDirks/geneFax
Oct 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:18 pushes, 3 branches in 1 day
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