Trent Piepho
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTrent Piepho is a seasoned embedded Linux engineer with 18 years of experience building systems from hardware design through bootloader, kernel, driver, and application layers for products ranging from automotive infotainment to satellite antennas and cable set‑top boxes. He specializes in Linux video capture, digital broadcasting (ATSC, MPEG, QAM), fast-boot embedded systems, and wireless video over 802.11, and has hands-on experience improving boot speed, security, and multimedia stacks. Trent has contributed to notable open-source projects such as Zephyr and MicroPython—fixing sensor drivers and ESP32 integration issues—demonstrating a practical blend of device-driver expertise and IoT-focused firmware work. Based in Seattle, he combines deep low-level kernel/device-driver skills with a track record of shipping complex, production-grade embedded products.
18 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Computer Science, BA, Computer Science at University of Washington
Github Skills (33)
uart10
gnu-make10
c-language10
video-encoding10
python10
h26510
embedded-language10
c1110
microcontroller10
zephyr10
c1710
i2c10
low-level-programming10
rtos10
sys10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr
Apr 2022 - Jun 2024
Primary Git Repository for the Zephyr Project. Zephyr is a new generation, scalable, optimized, secure RTOS for multiple hardware architectures.
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:113 reviews, 10 PRs, 206 comments in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Trent primarily contributed to the sensor drivers within the Zephyr RTOS, specifically for the Si7006 temperature and humidity sensor. Their work included fixing calculation errors to ensure accurate sensor readings, refactoring the code to improve efficiency and maintainability, and expanding sensor compatibility to include SHT21 and HTU21D models. The user also addressed code quality by removing unused code and cleaning up header files.
bluetooth-lereal-timezephyrsecuregit-repository
mean00/avidemux2
Oct 2020 - Nov 2020
Avidemux2, simple video editor
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 21 commits, 9 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Trent primarily focused on enhancing the x265 video encoder within the Avidemux2 video editor. Their contributions involved implementing new options and controls within the x265 configuration, specifically concerning motion partitions, intra-frame encoding, RDO level, and reference frame limits. They also fixed a bug related to the bFrameAdaptive parameter, and added options for rdoq. Furthermore, they added color information to the bitstream, refactored combo box code, and removed old rate tolerance and noise reduction settings.
windowsh264mp4video-editorlinux
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