Sid Price
Desktop, Embedded, And IoT System Architect at I am self-employed and available for work.
Tijeras, New Mexico, United States
Summary
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SeniorSid Price is a seasoned desktop, embedded, and IoT system architect with over 30 years of hands-on experience designing everything from bare-metal microcontroller firmware to modern cross-platform desktop and mobile applications. He combines deep real-time and near-real-time control expertise—especially in professional audio systems—with recent work in embedded Linux, Electron, Android, and Flutter, demonstrating an ability to evolve with technology. As a long-time self-employed principal, Sid blends remote-first development with on-site consultation and has delivered products for clients such as Apogee Electronics and Gates Air. He is an active contributor to embedded tooling—improving the Blackmagic in-application debugger for ARM Cortex devices—showing practical open-source impact on firmware debugging and DFU workflows. Detail-oriented yet systems-minded, Sid excels at turning complex hardware/software requirements into reliable, testable products.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
English
Stackoverflow
593reputation
52kreached
14answers
37questions
Github Skills (21)
debugging10
debug10
gnu-make10
c1110
makefile10
c1710
sys10
embedded10
dfu9
build-system9
firmware9
windows9
stm9
socket8
wireshark6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
blackmagic-debug/blackmagic
Mar 2019 - Nov 2022
In application debugger for ARM Cortex microcontrollers.
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:114 reviews, 40 commits, 76 PRs in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Sid's contributions primarily focused on improving the "blackmagic" in-application debugger for ARM Cortex microcontrollers. They implemented and fixed aspects related to Windows builds, addressing issues within the Makefile and socket functions. The user also cleaned up and modified files related to DFU (Device Firmware Update) including STM32 platform specific files, likely improving the debugging and firmware update capabilities for the supported microcontrollers. Furthermore, they fixed variable/function name clashes for Windows builds.
cortexstlinkjtagflashdebugger
sidprice/orbuculum
Aug 2022 - Dec 2024
Cortex M SWO SWV Demux and Postprocess
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
postprocesscortexbare-metaldemuxcortex-a
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