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Brian Mitchell
Senior Embedded Software Engineer with experience in hardware-software constraints, performance, reliability, and shipped systems. Practical work includes Firmware debugging, Oscilloscope analysis, Watchdog recovery, Hardware integration testing.
Experience
Amazon
Austin · United States
Senior Embedded Software Engineer
Jan 2021 - now
- As workstream lead, implemented firmware drivers in C for interrupt-driven sensor acquisition; checked register sequencing and buffer boundaries with captured traces before enabling the device in the integration build.
- With responsibility for the review standard, built a Python hardware-in-the-loop harness for the C++ control service, injecting serial disconnects and delayed responses; saved failure traces that reproduced a watchdog reset.
- Used oscilloscope captures and firmware logs to isolate a startup race; checked watchdog recovery, power interruption and firmware-version compatibility on the bench.
- Owned a firmware startup investigation using C++ traces and Python test control, resolved a power-on race and completed repeated recovery tests on the bench.
- Released CI/CD hardware-test instructions using Linux serial logs, reduced failed-test triage from 40 to 16 minutes and retained the exact firmware build identifiers.
Datadog
New York · United States
Embedded Software Engineer
Mar 2016 - Dec 2020
- Reduced boot-time initialization and deferred noncritical peripherals; aligned review standards and decision owners across the participating teams. Working with partner teams, kept turnaround time within the agreed operating window.
- Reviewed a proposed change against the existing interface contract, reproduced a reviewer’s edge case, and added the missing test or example before merging the change.
- Investigated a failure reported by a downstream team using the exact version and input they supplied. Reduced it to a reproducible test, delivered the fix with compatibility notes, and confirmed the original case passed before closing the report.
Selected project
Embedded Software Engineer — independent case study
Cross-functional project lead
Mar 2023 - Jul 2023
- Built hardware-in-the-loop tests for 24 timing and communication scenarios; aligned review standards and decision owners across the participating teams
- Built an isolated fixture with normal, malformed and interrupted inputs; recorded the expected response before running the implementation so failures were distinguishable from a changed assumption.
- Packaged the reproduction steps, configuration and regression tests with the project; checked the instructions from a clean environment and documented the unsupported cases instead of claiming production readiness.
- Owned the independent regression fixture using isolated inputs, resolved a failing edge case and released a reproducible test package with expected outputs.
Education
University of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, Ohio · United States
B.S. Electrical Engineering
Sep 2008 - Jun 2012
Relevant coursework: Circuit analysis, electronics, power systems, control systems
Skills
Role expertise
Firmware debugging · Oscilloscope analysis · Watchdog recovery · Hardware integration testing
Publications
- Published an independent technical note using the project’s before-and-after traces, explaining the failed assumption, regression coverage and cases the implementation does not support.


