Randall Maas
Consulting Software Engineer at Blackwood Designs, LLC
Chanhassen, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolRandall Maas is a seasoned embedded firmware engineer and manager with over two decades delivering FDA-compliant software for implantable Class III medical devices, telemetry systems, and precision motor-control products. He blends deep hands-on expertise across a wide range of microcontrollers and RTOSes with leadership experience taking products from feasibility demonstrations to manufacturing-ready designs. Randall has led teams at Medtronic, Boston Scientific and EnteroMedics, authored detailed design controls and risk analyses, and developed niche systems like transcutaneous energy transfer for rechargeable implants. Equally comfortable writing tight, resource-constrained firmware and the documentation that satisfies IEC 62304/14971 requirements, he is known for pragmatic, safety-first designs. An amateur radio enthusiast who once created an early internet protocol (IP 2341), he continues to tinker, publish projects on his personal site, and maintain a small consulting practice from Chanhassen, Minnesota.
12 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Physics, Physics at University of WashingtonBachelor’s Degree Physics, Bachelor’s Degree Physics at Hamline UniversityUniversity of Minnesota
Github Skills (65)
structures10
arduino-library10
naudio10
chips9
spi9
prose9
sd-card9
raspberry9
m5stack9
retrocomputing9
hal8
idris8
sdk8
markdown8
esp328
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
randym32/Anki.Vector.Documentation
Nov 2020 - Aug 2021
A draft of what the documents wiki for Project Victor might look like
Contributions:139 commits, 1 PR, 137 pushes in 9 months
lookwiki-documentsprosemanualvictor
randym32/victor
Oct 2019 - Dec 2020
Tool and documentation dumping grounds
Contributions:9 PRs, 82 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
dumpingdrone-ciquality-assurance1c
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