Stefan Driesner
Embedded Software Engineering Specialist at Caterpillar Inc.
Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolStefan Driesner is an embedded software engineering specialist with 10+ years of experience building robust toolchains, release automation, and cross-platform build environments for safety- and performance-critical systems. At Caterpillar he spearheaded software quality and repeatable-release tooling for machine software and currently develops SDKs and Docker-based build workflows for autonomous vehicle programs. His background at Texas Instruments gives him deep expertise in flash/EEPROM test algorithms, wafer-level test automation, and failure analysis, complementing hands-on skills in Buildroot, GNU Make, SCons, Bash, Python, and ARM assembly. Stefan blends low-level C/C++ and hardware-aware debugging with modern CI practices (Jenkins, Docker) to bridge firmware development and scalable engineering processes. Based in Illinois with an electrical engineering degree from UIUC, he’s as comfortable tracing a bootloader issue as he is designing reproducible developer environments—an engineer who optimizes both the product and the way teams build it.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (34)
arch7
freecell6
canopen5
ansible5
luks5
ptrace5
busybox4
libc4
chroot4
chromebook4
btrfs4
netbsd4
musl4
armv64
manjaro4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
shdriesner/archbook
Aug 2017 - Feb 2021
Contributions:2 commits, 6 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 6 months
chromebookansiblearch
shdriesner/HymnTabs
Nov 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:279 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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