Randy Leberknight
Staff Firmware Engineer at Gradient
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolRandy Leberknight is a Staff Firmware Engineer based in San Francisco with decades of deep experience in low-level firmware, board bring-up, and close collaboration with hardware and ASIC designers. He has led firmware architecture and implementation for regulated medical neuromodulation devices and consumer hardware, shipping Class II and Class III products while navigating FDA and ISO requirements. Known for expertise in C, multiple assemblers, Open Firmware and Forth, he excels at hunting subtle, hard-to-reproduce bugs and has published and presented widely on debugging techniques. Randy mentors engineers, defines release and factory programming processes, and has repeatedly acted as technical lead during hiring and team formation. His background spans startups to large firms—Motorola, Synaptics, PAX, and more—giving him a rare blend of academic curiosity (BA Psychology with CS minor) and practical, hardware-near problem solving. An oft-overlooked strength is his long history with Forth/Open Firmware and multicore toolchains, which informs unconventional but effective debugging and architecture choices.
8 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
BA Psych Minor CS, BA Psych Minor CS at California State University-Dominguez Hills
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Github Skills (14)
ruby7
homebrew7
linux7
git6
working-directory6
cd6
git-diff6
diff-tool6
gitlab6
firmware6
macos6
github6
robotics5
package-manager4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
PaxLabs/mynewt-core
Jul 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:3 PRs, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
FRCTeam1967/FRCTeam1967
Feb 2018 - Jan 2020
Contributions:4 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
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