R Gustafson
Senior Principal Software Engineer at BAE Systems, Inc.
Fort Walton Beach, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolR Gustafson is a Senior Principal Software Engineer with 14+ years of hands-on experience building embedded and cross-platform systems, from bare-metal firmware to embedded Linux on Xilinx FPGA and cloud-deployed services. He combines deep C/C++ and Objective-C expertise with practical DevOps and cloud skills (AWS, Azure Gov) and a long track record of porting and modernizing legacy codebases, including Apple Silicon universal builds. Known as a pragmatic technical leader and mentor, he excels at board bring-up, RTOS/bare-metal work, and coordinating multi-site teams to deliver secure, production-grade software. His background spans startups to defense and enterprise (BAE Systems, BitTorrent, Symantec, eBay), reflecting an unusual blend of consumer app, telecom, and embedded systems experience. He also brings system-level instincts from designing low-power Atmel firmware and running full infrastructure stacks as a consultant, making him adept at bridging hardware constraints and cloud-native deployment.
14 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Software Engineering, Master of Science (MS) Software Engineering at San José State University
Github Skills (48)
webos10
mod-manager10
acme-server10
lg10
ssl-certificate10
dmx51210
television10
smart-tv10
letsencrypt9
ftp9
acme9
baduk9
toast9
trains9
ssh9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
scott-42/IntelePeer
Jun 2018 - May 2023
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 11 months
scott-42/sogeBot
Dec 2017 - May 2020
Contributions:3 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 5 months
node-jsjavascriptbottwitchnodejs
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