Eric Johnson
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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SeniorEric Johnson is a Director of Engineering and seasoned embedded systems engineer with nine years of hands-on experience building firmware, device drivers, BLE stacks, and cloud-connected IoT services across startups and enterprise teams. He combines deep C/C++ and embedded C expertise with Python-driven tooling and data workflows, having led firmware architecture, SDK releases, and Zephyr community engagement while supporting customers from evaluation to production. At companies from Athos to Memfault and Walgreens he has shipped gateway and BLE products, driven FCC certification work, and translated field feedback into SDK and backend improvements. Based in Chicago and trained in electrical engineering at UIUC with a bioengineering minor, he uniquely blends hardware debugging instincts with product-facing software and developer experience leadership.
9 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (84)
embedded-software10
firmware10
zephyr-rtos10
bluetooth10
embedded10
sdk10
developer-tools10
git10
microcontroller10
zephyr10
git-hooks10
iot10
manager10
mcu10
bluetooth-le10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ejohnso49/zephyr
Oct 2021 - Apr 2024
Primary Git Repository for the Zephyr Project. Zephyr is a new generation, scalable, optimized, secure RTOS for multiple hardware architectures.
Contributions:14 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 6 months
architecturesscalablegit-repositorysecuresoftware-defined-radio
ejohnso49/jekyll-theme-future-imperfect
Mar 2020 - Feb 2025
Contributions:2 pushes in 5 years
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