Richard Koch
Principal Software Firmware Engineer at JOHNSON CONTROLS, INC. (formerly Tyco, Inc.)
Nashua, New Hampshire, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Koch is a Principal Software/Firmware Engineer with 26 years of hands-on experience designing embedded systems, device drivers, and platform firmware across ARM and legacy architectures. He excels at Linux BSPs, U-Boot and kernel driver development, automated test systems, and manufacturing bring-up—having prototyped Buildroot/Yocto solutions and delivered an ATE for ARM controller boards. Richard combines deep software debugging with hardware-level troubleshooting using schematics and lab instruments, and he has implemented robust field upgrade and dual-partition failover schemes for resilient devices. He has supported access control and video security products at scale, added IPv6 to embedded web GUIs, and maintains a pragmatic customer-support mindset informed by GDB/core analysis. Comfortable working with global teams and contract manufacturers, he also holds an inactive secret clearance and a decades-spanning track record of turning complex embedded requirements into production-ready firmware.
26 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BSCS Computer Science, BSCS Computer Science at Daniel Webster CollegeAS Applied Computer Technology, AS Applied Computer Technology at Nashua Community College
Github Skills (62)
ethernet9
raspberry9
mca9
altium-designer8
gnuradio8
redpitaya8
xilinx8
zynq8
network-protocol8
dac8
dns-sd8
software-defined-radio8
mikrotik7
siemens7
vivado7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
n1gp/librtlsdr
Mar 2014 - Mar 2018
Software to turn the RTL2832U into an SDR and also an HPSDR
Contributions:11 commits, 1 PR, 26 pushes in 4 years
software-defined-radiosdl2dacgnuradiosdr
n1gp/cudaSDR
Apr 2015 - Feb 2022
Contributions:28 commits, 28 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 11 months
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