Summary
Rick Tillery is a senior embedded software engineer with 30+ years of experience designing firmware, drivers, libraries, and applications across embedded, mobile, IoT, and desktop platforms. He has led architecture and firmware efforts for custom SoC products and secure Linux-based multimedia control systems, and holds multiple patents for display and system optimizations. Comfortable across C, C++17, .NET/C#, Android, and low-level ARM/Neon assembly, Rick blends deep systems expertise with strong written and verbal communication to drive cross-functional integration. He has a track record of building reusable security and authorization infrastructure, authoring extensive unit test suites, and contributing useful open-source tooling like fmtster. Based in Greater Fayetteville, AR, he prefers remote, full-time, permanent roles and brings a disciplined, Navy-trained background that informs his pragmatic leadership and systems-thinking approach.
11 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Tahlequah High School
BS Electrical Engineering, BS Electrical Engineering at University of Oklahoma
Electrical Engineering, Electrical Engineering at University of Arkansas
Mount Saint Mary's High School
Electrical Engineering, Electrical Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
English, French