Rick Foos
Software Engineer And Consultant at SolengTech
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolRick Foos is a pragmatic software engineer and consultant with 15+ years of hands-on experience delivering embedded firmware, kernel/device-tree ports, and secure cryptographic systems across startups and large corporations. He has led projects from first-silicon bringup to FIPS-certified appliances, blending low-level firmware (Cortex-M/M3/M4) with cloud backends and DevOps automation to ship products on time and on budget. Rick’s background spans IoT, touchscreen controllers, FPGA tools, and customized OpenSSL builds with hardware acceleration, showing a rare mix of security, performance tuning, and production test automation. He founded and ran engineering consultancy SolengTech, driving technical sales and delivering AWS-connected IoT solutions and OpenOCD contributions for new SOCs. Known for resolving deep technical roadblocks—from build and CI infra to noisy OLED touch tuning—he combines technical leadership with an MBA-informed business sense. Based in Austin, Rick also experiments with AI tooling (Llama AI Simulator) and maintains device-tree/kernel work on GitHub.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Electrical Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Electrical Computer Engineering at University of MichiganMasters in Business Administration, Business Management, Masters in Business Administration, Business Management at St.Edward's University
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Github Skills (48)
openocd10
dependency-graph8
credits8
licensing8
scancode7
package7
bundle7
spdx7
sca7
scanning7
nimble6
vi6
vim6
escaping6
newline6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
rfoos/openbenchmarks
Oct 2011 - Oct 2016
Contributions:4 commits, 4 pushes in 5 years 1 month
rickfoosusa/build-scripts
Feb 2016 - Dec 2017
Contributions:22 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 10 months
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