Rich Olson
Senior Electrical Engineer Firmware & AI ML at Deako
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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SeniorRich Olson is a Senior Electrical Engineer specializing in firmware and AI/ML with 13 years of experience turning hardware concepts into working prototypes for medical devices, consumer products, and smart-home systems. Based in Seattle, he blends embedded C, RTOS (Zephyr/STM32), NRF52/BLE, FPGA/Verilog, and Python tooling to deliver validated, manufacturable designs and automated deployment pipelines. His work includes patented insulin-delivery sensing, a novel single-emitter infrared IV drop measurement method under NIH SBIR, and firmware validation for Meta AR prototypes—demonstrating both deep low-power design chops and practical system-level debugging. Equally comfortable in PCB layout, schematic review, and mobile app demos, he focuses on aligning sensor-driven systems with clear user value. Colleagues rely on him to catch critical hardware issues early, speeding time-to-manufacture while preserving product reliability.
13 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (3)
robot-controller8
arduino6
editor1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
nothinglabs/openmelt
Mar 2013 - Apr 2015
Contributions:5 commits, 6 pushes in 2 years 1 month
nothinglabs/openmelt2
Mar 2023 - Apr 2025
Translational drift ("melty brain") robot controller based on Arduino
Contributions:1 PR, 67 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
arduinorobot-controller
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