Eric Fortin
Senior Software Engineer at Harsco Rail
Sumter, South Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Fortin is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of hands-on experience building and maintaining embedded control systems for heavy equipment and industrial devices. He excels at taking over legacy projects and quickly delivering reliable firmware, wireless communications, and Windows CE/desktop GUIs for companies like Harsco Rail and Caterpillar. With an MSEE in Computer Engineering, his background spans CPLD/FPGA work through real-time tractor steering, braking and ABS control—demonstrating deep systems-level thinking and safety-minded design. Known for pragmatic attention to detail, he treats software as continuously improvable, blending maintenance discipline with steady feature delivery. Based in Sumter, SC, he brings rare continuity across decades of embedded platforms and production-critical deployments.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
MSEE, Computer Engineering, MSEE, Computer Engineering at Southern Illinois University, EdwardsvilleBSEE, Electrical Engineering, BSEE, Electrical Engineering at Indiana Institute of Technology
English, German
Github Skills (2)
google-play10
android10
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
videogameboy76/FBEditPlus
May 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:27 commits, 26 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
videogameboy76/frozenbubbleandroid
Mar 2013 - Apr 2020
Frozen Bubble for Android - Official Google Play & Amazon Appstore Repository
Contributions:226 commits, 4 PRs, 151 pushes in 7 years 2 months
androidgoogle-play
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