Summary
Barry Andersen is a Senior Staff Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building embedded Linux, IoT, networking, and DevOps solutions from the device level to cloud integrations. Based in Minneapolis, he has progressed through technical roles at Unisys and SmartThings into leadership engineering positions at BrightAI, where he now shapes architecture and delivery. He combines deep embedded systems expertise with modern software practices to create extensible, highly usable products and reliable deployment pipelines. Barry’s MS in Software Engineering complements a pragmatic approach to maintainability and team enablement, often translating low-level constraints into scalable system designs. Notably, his background spans both long-term enterprise projects and rapid consumer-facing IoT development, giving him a rare cross-domain perspective on security, performance, and user experience.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Software Engineering, Master of Science (MS) Software Engineering at University of Minnesota