Rick Vaughn
Sr. Hardware Design Engineer at Alert Tech SMT
Webster, Texas, United States
Summary
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SeniorRick Vaughn is a Sr. Hardware Design Engineer with 11 years of recent experience and a multi-decade background designing embedded systems for industrial and commercial applications. He combines hands-on circuit and PCB design with fluent C firmware development for Microchip and Intel cores, plus low-level assembly across 8051, 6800, and TI families. Rick specializes in reliable communications and power-constrained systems—battery-operated devices with wireless links, RS-485 Modbus, and MQTT integrations—while also implementing Raspberry Pi C applications in production. He brings deep PLC expertise (Rockwell, Modicon, Allen-Bradley, Honeywell, Automation Direct) and practical CAD/EDA skills (AutoCAD, PADS, Eagle) that bridge instrumentation, process control, and product engineering. Based in Webster, Texas, he’s known for turning legacy industrial protocols into modern, maintainable embedded solutions.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (7)
pyautogui4
python3
pytesseract3
tactics2
ocr1
gcode1
opencv1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
RickyVaughn2/node-red-cosmos-r2
Apr 2023 - Feb 2025
Contributions:1 PR, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
RickyVaughn2/node-red-mysql-r2
Feb 2023 - Apr 2023
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch, 9 comments in 2 months
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