Scott Brust
Senior Embedded Engineer at Particle
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolScott Brust is a Senior Embedded Engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area with over a decade of experience building connected devices and IoT firmware. He has led firmware development for automotive and telematics products at companies like SiriusXM, Automatic Labs, and Cantaloupe, and currently contributes to Particle's Device OS with low-level work on bootloaders, secure boot, cellular initialization, and PWM. Comfortable across small startup teams and scaled product platforms, he combines deep C firmware skill with practical experience bringing manufacturing lines and custom programming tools online. Scott’s background shows a strong focus on cellular connectivity and device bring-up—hands-on work that spans ASIC-level code to modem OTP/registration logic. Known for shipping reliable embedded systems, he pairs pragmatic problem-solving with attention to security and field reliability.
4 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
San Diego State University
English
Github Skills (12)
c1710
firmware10
bootloader10
embedded10
low-level-programming10
c-language10
c1110
cprogramming-language10
sys10
realtek9
iot8
pwm6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
particle-iot/device-os
Jul 2021 - Jan 2023
Device OS (Firmware) for Particle Devices
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:14 releases, 284 reviews, 211 commits in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Scott primarily contributed to the firmware (Device OS) for Particle devices, working on low-level features. The commits involved modifying and improving the bootloader, with changes including handling secure boot mechanisms. Additionally, the user worked on determining modem type using OTP, indicating a focus on device initialization and cellular connectivity. The user implemented error handling for network registration and signal quality commands and made modifications to the PWM system.
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particle-iot/realtek_ambd_sdk_public
Dec 2022 - Jun 2024
Realtek Ameba-D SDK
Contributions:1 review, 4 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 year 6 months
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