Skip Hansen
Retired at Phyn
Rancho Palos Verdes, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSkip Hansen is a retired embedded systems specialist with decades of hands-on experience in communications, real-time control and device drivers, backed by an MSEE and BSEE. He combines deep C/C++ and assembly expertise across a remarkable range of architectures (ARM, MIPS, x86, 8051, Z80 and many more) with hardware design skills in VHDL and microcode for custom controllers. Known for quickly diagnosing hardware–software interactions, he has long worked with Linux and open source toolchains to deliver robust cross-platform solutions. As a consultant to companies from Belkin and Beats Music to lighting and industrial automation firms, he blends practical product experience with legacy and modern embedded constraints. His recent hobbyist/IoT contributions include improving an ESP32 e-paper weather display, fixing time conversion bugs and adding platformio support—illustrating he still enjoys low-level problem solving and enabling reproducible builds. Based in Rancho Palos Verdes, he brings a rare combination of electronics, firmware and system-level intuition that accelerates complex debugging and product hardening.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
MSEE Digital Electronics active filters, MSEE Digital Electronics active filters at California State University, Long BeachBSEE Analog and Digital Electronics, BSEE Analog and Digital Electronics at Northrop University
Github Skills (7)
esp3210
platformio10
embedded10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
sys10
arduino10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
G6EJD/ESP32-e-Paper-Weather-Display
Dec 2021 - Dec 2021
An ESP32 and 2.9", 4.2" or 7.5" ePaper Display reads Weather Underground data via their API and then displays the weather
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 4 PRs, 8 comments in 9 days
Contributions summary:Skip primarily contributed to example files within the repository, focusing on adapting and fixing the weather display project for various e-paper display models. They corrected time conversion issues for forecast data display and added support for platformio configuration, enhancing build and deployment flexibility. Their work demonstrates a deep understanding of the e-paper display libraries and the configuration of weather data retrieval and display on embedded systems.
apidisplaysnoaaepapere-ink
skiphansen/xcat_ng_fw
Aug 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:50 commits, 39 pushes in 4 months
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