Randall Maas
Chief Manager at Blackwood Designs, LLC
Chanhassen, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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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
29 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 (48)
structures10
naudio10
idris10
prose10
markdown9
spi9
arduino-library9
driver9
esp328
arduino8
rp20408
stm8
robot8
parsing8
sdk8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
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
randym32/randym32.github.io
Jun 2018 - Feb 2021
Contributions:132 commits, 130 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
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