Ryan Howard
Senior Embedded Software Engineer at Opentrons Labworks Inc.
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Howard is a Senior Embedded Software Engineer based in New York with 11 years of hands-on experience building firmware, drivers, and low-level systems across medical lab automation, high-speed networking, and IoT devices. He has progressed from CI/build systems and desktop-to-device integration to Zephyr RTOS kernel work, Linux driver development, and 100Gbps optics R&D, demonstrating comfort across constrained MCUs and complex networked hardware. Known for operating effectively as an individual contributor, cross-team facilitator, and technical bridge in large engineering organizations, he ships bootloaders, power-optimized firmware, and peripheral drivers for STM32 and specialized modules. He combines practical electronics lab skills—oscilloscopes, multimeters, laser-enabled debugging—with software craft, making him adept at diagnosing issues that span silicon, firmware, and system integration.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Computer science, Mathematics, Computer science, Mathematics at Stetson University
Github Skills (27)
biology10
robotics10
protocols10
science10
pyserial9
android-application8
sourceforge8
firmware7
serial-port6
parser6
android5
python5
buildroot5
json5
cpp4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ryanthecoder/ryanthecoder.github.io
Mar 2015 - May 2019
Contributions:16 pushes in 4 years 3 months
ryanthecoder/WinterMancer
Jul 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch, 8 issues in 4 months
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