Jeanne Pindar
Verified Expert in Engineering
Embedded Systems Designer and Developer
Hampton, United States
Toptal member since May 10, 2022
Jeanne is an embedded systems developer who has worked primarily in the radio frequency industry and has experience with the entire software and firmware development cycle and hands-on expertise in electronics manufacturing. While most of her experience has been in embedded systems and automated test equipment, she's also interested in other types of software development and PCB layout work. She has worked remotely and has a distraction-free work environment, including a basic electronics lab.
Portfolio
Experience
- Instrumentation - 20 years
- Embedded C - 20 years
- Windows - 20 years
- Embedded Systems - 20 years
- Electronics - 20 years
- PCB Layout - 20 years
- Linux - 10 years
- Python - 7 years
Availability
Preferred Environment
Windows, Linux, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), MPLAB, C, Python, Git
The most amazing...
...thing I've developed is software that automates test equipment to test and calibrate electronic devices in ways that would be nearly impossible to do manually.
Work Experience
Embedded Systems Designer
SimWave RF & Microwave Design LLC
- Designed microcontroller boards for wireless signal processing devices and created the schematics and PCB layout for these and other devices.
- Wrote bare-metal firmware in C to control RF devices, LCDs, and keypads.
- Wrote software in Python to control embedded devices and acquire data from instruments. This included graphical user interfaces distributed with products and ones for in-house use during testing and calibration of products.
Embedded Systems Designer
Q-Filter Products
- Designed microcontroller boards for controlling RF devices. Drew schematics and laid out the PCBs for these and RF circuits.
- Wrote embedded C firmware for controlling various peripherals.
- Wrote GUI software to control and acquire data from instrumentation, namely network analyzers, spectrum analyzers, and oscilloscopes, to enable computer-controlled testing and calibration of RF devices.
Experience
Tunable Active Bandpass Filter
I designed the microcontroller board and other digital circuitry, laid out some of the PCBs, and wrote the firmware. I also wrote a Python GUI, which can be used to control the device.
Skills
Tools
Instruments, PCB Layout, Git, Subversion (SVN)
Languages
Embedded C, LSL, Visual Basic 6 (VB6), C, Python, Assembly
Paradigms
Testing, Object-oriented Programming (OOP)
Platforms
Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Windows, Linux
Other
Embedded Systems, Troubleshooting, Debugging, Legacy Code, Schematics, MPLAB, Instrumentation, Electronics, EDA, Tkinter, SCPI, Prototyping, Firmware
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