Richard Olsen
Senior Principal Embedded Architect at Schneider Electric
Region of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Olsen is a Senior Principal Embedded Architect with 25+ years of hands-on experience designing advanced hardware and real-time firmware for industrial systems. At Schneider Electric he architects ARM Cortex MPU/MPSoC/FPGA platforms spanning sensor edge to cloud with strong focus on cybersecurity, scalability and hard real-time constraints. He excels at writing efficient C/C++ for RTOS and bare-metal environments, specifying traceable designs, and leading multi-site teams through full product lifecycles. Richard holds multiple worldwide patents and has authored internal guidelines and whitepapers on high-speed digital hardware and complex system architectures. His background spans embedded Linux, device drivers, proprietary and industrial Ethernet protocols, and tooling from Lauterbach to Klocwork, reflecting deep cross-disciplinary fluency. Not obvious from the title: he routinely blends firmware, hardware and DevOps practices to deliver fault-tolerant, safety- and security-focused products in global engineering organizations.
10 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, BSc, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Odense TeknikumRosborg Gymnasium
English, French, German, Swedish, Spanish
Github Skills (3)
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
richard-olsen/LWJGL-3-Tutorial
Mar 2016 - Apr 2018
The code to my YouTube tutorial series
Contributions:34 commits, 1 PR, 27 pushes in 2 years
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richard-olsen/OpenGL-Tutorial-LWJGL
Feb 2017 - Jan 2019
Contributions:10 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
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