Richard Slindee
Principal Embedded Software Engineer at Ford Motor Company
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Slindee is a Principal Embedded Software Engineer with a decade of hands-on experience building safety-critical and consumer-facing embedded systems across automotive, aerospace, industrial, and IoT domains. He has driven architectural and delivery improvements at companies like Rivian and Bird, authoring core vehicle controller components, robust driver stacks, and infrastructure for unit/HIL testing and static analysis. Comfortable both leading teams and digging into low-level bring-up, he has deep experience with MCUs (Infineon AURIX, NXP, TI, STM32), CAN/ISO-TP/UDS, FreeRTOS/SafeRTOS and modem integrations. Known as a force-multiplier, Richard codifies extensible APIs and processes that reduce technical debt while improving testability and release workflows. Based in Los Angeles, he blends startup velocity with automotive-grade rigor and a persistent interest in open source and modern tooling for embedded development. An understated strength is his pattern of turning messy legacy systems into maintainable platforms that scale across production and manufacturing.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering at Lawrence Technological University
Github Skills (47)
launcher9
file-search8
icalendar8
filesystem8
tui7
ncurses7
android7
command-line7
file-manager7
cli7
raspberry-pi6
dispatch6
ctags6
vim6
home-assistant6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
rslindee/scripts
Oct 2016 - Mar 2023
Contributions:98 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 6 months
rslindee/dotfiles
Feb 2016 - Sep 2022
Contributions:443 commits, 969 pushes, 7 branches in 6 years 8 months
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