Summary
Stephen Berkner is a security-focused embedded systems engineer with 10 years of experience building and securing firmware and hardware across medical, automotive, industrial, and IoT domains. Currently a Security Analyst II at Milwaukee Tool and founder of Berkner Tech, he blends hands-on firmware development, hardware bring-up, and security assessments with educator-level documentation and course content for STM32, hardware security, and embedded AWS. His background includes designing FIPS-compliant HSM tooling, CI-driven manufacturing pipelines, FPGA/MCU firmware for regulated industries, and field-deployed simulation hardware for DoD projects—showing a rare mix of applied cryptography and system-level hardware design. He’s led teams and hiring for senior embedded roles, and often turns prototype dev-board work into production-ready PCBs and repeatable CI assets.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Oxbridge Academy
Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering at University of Florida