Peter Provost
Sr. Staff Software Development Engineer at SCAPE - SW Colorado Accelerator Program for Entrepreneurs
Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolPeter Provost is a Sr. Staff Software Development Engineer and lifelong autodidact with over 30 years of experience building cloud, mobile, desktop and IoT/embedded solutions across startups and large organizations. He has led product and engineering teams at Microsoft and now at Dexcom, applying a practical, hands-on approach to hard problems others deem unsolvable and frequently spinning up internal startups to accelerate innovation. A prolific problem-solver, Peter combines deep embedded networking expertise—evidenced by contributions to the industrial-grade Eclipse ThreadX/NetXDuo TCP/IP stack—with a broad interdisciplinary skill set spanning electrical engineering, 3D printing, and manufacturing applications. Based in Colorado, he mentors founders through the SW Colorado Accelerator while bringing a passion for outdoor life and a knack for translating real-world operational needs into robust technical systems.
20 years of coding experience
BS, BS at Colorado State University
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Github Skills (21)
c-programming10
iot10
rtos10
tcp10
embedded10
pppoe9
dhcp9
cmake8
git7
powershell6
libtls6
mtls6
visual-studio6
command-line6
nunit6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
eclipse-threadx/netxduo
May 2020 - May 2020
Eclipse ThreadX - NetXDuo is an advanced, industrial-grade TCP/IP network stack designed specifically for deeply embedded real-time and IoT applications
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:21 commits, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 18 days
Contributions summary:Peter primarily contributed to the `eclipse-threadx/netxduo` repository by updating and modifying code related to the NetXDuo TCP/IP stack. Their changes included updates for release candidates (RC2, RC3, RC5), specifically targeting the DHCP client, NX_Secure, and PPPoE server/client. The contributions demonstrate familiarity with embedded networking protocols and configurations relevant to industrial-grade real-time and IoT applications.
industrialazure-rtosgradeduortos
PProvost/dotfiles
Mar 2012 - Jan 2019
Contributions:155 commits, 7 pushes in 6 years 11 months
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