Summary
Ryan Statz is an Embedded Systems Engineer based in Berkeley with eight years of hands-on experience designing and shipping flight electronics, modular firmware, and high-bandwidth communication protocols for distributed electromechanical systems. He has led electrical teams for CubeSat missions and reduced sensor integration time from months to days by co-designing scalable firmware architectures and protocols (EtherCAT, USB) implemented on STM32 MCUs with FreeRTOS. At Micro-Vu he improved throughput and system responsiveness, authored MISRA-compliant, unit-tested C libraries, and built Python test tooling; he now applies that same rigor at Prolific Machines. Comfortable spanning electrical design through embedded software, Ryan pairs hardware-level intuition with production-quality firmware engineering. An avid hiker, he recently completed a continuous Pacific Crest Trail thru-hike during a record snow year, demonstrating endurance and problem-solving under extreme conditions.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo