Scot Salmon
Firmware Engineer at Apple
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolScot Salmon is a firmware and embedded systems engineer with over two decades of experience designing real-time systems across diverse hardware and OS platforms. Currently at Apple after recent roles at Meta and CesiumAstro, he combines deep low-level engineering with program-level leadership—having led NI’s migration to embedded Linux and driven DevOps transformations across multi-continent teams. He excels at bridging architecture, firmware, and delivery practices, turning complex embedded requirements into reliable production software. Based in Austin, he pairs hands-on coding with strategic program leadership, mentoring squads through platform transitions and tooling adoption. An electrical engineering graduate from Rice, Scot’s blend of legacy systems knowledge and modern DevOps practice is a less-obvious strength that helps teams modernize without losing hard-earned firmware robustness.
13 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Rice University
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Github Skills (53)
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ni/hackathon
Sep 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:16 commits, 2 pushes in 7 days
ScotSalmon/thronesdb
Jan 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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