Embedded C C++ SPI I2C UART RTLS STM32

1. Could you introduce yourself and tell us about you? Your current / recent jobs and employers? Previous companies and jobs? He’s an Embedded Software Engineer in Japan and with almost 7 years of experience now; he has worked with a lot of embedded projects including RTLS, I2C, SPI, communication protocols, and more. He is currently with XXXX, part of XXXX, as a Senior Embedded Software Engineer where he is developing a software for real-time location tracking device, work on tags to locate personnel and assets information, and provide RLTS and BLE-based system in general for their customers. He is also involved with debugging systems, using Embedded C for developing firmware, and has experience with RTOS. On a daily basis, he gets tasks delegated from the CTO, develop each tasks such as functionalities before deadline, and provide project proposals when needed; he also sometimes visit client site for investigation and installation of their devices. He started off as a Software Engineer for the same company back in India. 2. What skill(s) / experience would you self-describe as strongest or specialist in? Strongest skill would be his experience in Embedded C and C++ since he has developed his skills in that throughout the seven years of his career; he’s also strong with debugging and using different tools to do that such as oscilloscopes, logic analyser, measurement tools, and more. For communication protocol, he’s proficient with SPI, I2C, UART, and expertise is more on wireless including Bluetooth and Wi-Fi; has worked with different boards including STM32 and nRF52. 3. Do you have the lists of key criteria’s according to the clients’ requirements? He has almost 7 year of experience in embedded software development, mostly using Embedded C, and is involved with the whole architecture especially software design, hands-on development, up to implementation. Proficient with different lab equipment as well for debugging, testing, and frequently works with schematics and data sheets for their tag devices.

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Embedded Software C C++ RTOS Hardware Prototyping Modbus CAN PLC

1. Could you introduce yourself and tell us about you? Your current / recent jobs and employers? Previous companies and jobs? He was an Electronics Engineering student then started working on VPS Linux Servers, WordPress, and such from 2014 to 2020; it was a Dispatch Engineer role where he worked for a company but was being deployed to client systems every now and then. After that, he joined an internship with an Energy Optimization firm where he worked on real-time embedded systems such as mesh networks and networking. He pivoted to IoT and software afterwards including developing applications for IoT, dashboard, and more. He completed his Bachelor’s education in 2022 and his Master’s in 2024. During that time, he also worked for his own college where he deployed some projects for the campus. He then joined XXXX afterwards where he worked on several projects such as an ETL pipeline, migration of COBOL database to AWS, JAXA (ground to air communication system) for drones and manned aircrafts, and so on. On a daily basis, he picks up tasks from JIRA, involve himself in two to four week sprints, and uses different programming languages for different projects. 2. What skill(s) / experience would you self-describe as strongest or specialist in? Strongest skill would be the whole embedded software architecture, hardware, prototyping, and the end-to-end development; from PCB design to development of systems to prototyping. Other than that, he’s good with mobile application development, data-related ones, and backend development in general. In terms of tech stack, he’s proficient with Java, Spring Boot, PostgreSQL, Linux, Python, TensorFlow, Pandas, NumPy; on the embedded side, he’s good with Embedded C, DSP, ESP-IDF, MDF, ARM Programming, and more. 3. Do you have the lists of key criteria’s according to the clients’ requirements? He has solid 4-5 years of experience in embedded software development; has always been involved with hands-on coding, contributing directly to software design and development. Strongest with Embedded C programming, C++, RTOS, Modbus, CAN communication, and more. Aside from that, he’s familiar with network analysers, oscilloscopes, multimeters, and can do soldering as well if needed. Part of driver development would be reading schematics and data sheets so he’s also knowledgeable with that.

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C C++ Embedded Firmware Data Centre Communications Robotics Payment

1. Could you introduce yourself and tell us about you? Your current / recent jobs and employers? Previous companies and jobs? He is originally from China and acquired solid experience within three companies only so far in his career. His first company is called XXXX where he served from Software Engineer to becoming a Product Software Manager, with a payment system product; he started off by contributing to design, development, and implementation of software systems to leading the development and technical side of things. He managed software development and QA teams back then, also coordinated both technical and personnel-related stuff. After that, he joined XXXX as a Senior Engineer where he was involved with the design, development, implementation, and validation of core software modules especially drivers for routers for data centres, CDK, and NPUs inside it; he worked on RT Linux back then, developing drivers, both kernel-level and library-level, and provided application-level support as well. He is now with XXXX as a Senior Firmware Engineer, their main product would be robots that provide inspection services; their system is divided into the software running inside the robots and the one running on servers that control the robots. His job is focused on the software running inside the robot, MCU control, where he controls the modules and get feedback from the center, calculate the next steps of the motor joints, and just recently, he is working on a streaming per position command into the whole system; working on target position, target speed, smoothness of the movement, latency, jitters, and all. He’s involved with the end-to-end design and development of their software right now. 2. What skill(s) / experience would you self-describe as strongest or specialist in? Strongest skill would be his fast-learning skills; during the course of his career, he has been into payment products, data centre and communications, and right now, into robotics, so he’s flexible when it comes to industry and product. He is willing to learn automotive audio industry as well if given the opportunity. Apart from that, he loves challenges and as an engineer, he loves solving difficult problems even during his managerial position with first company; he is passionate in breaking down complex problems and resolving them one by one. He’s focused on embedded systems development and is proficient with C and C++; since he’s developing firmware, he usually writes code in C language and uses Python to develop tiny tools to test their firmware, Shell for scripting, and so on. 3. Do you have the lists of key criteria’s according to the clients’ requirements? He has more than 15 years of experience in embedded software development; during his first company, he was handling software for payment terminals, server-side programs, and on his next company, mostly focused on PC components. On these roles, he’s involved in end-to-end development and has lot of contribution to software design, development, up to implementation. Strong C and C++ programming languages experience, and apart from the software, he’s also proficient with hardware such as oscilloscopes, multimeters, protocol loggers, and more.

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Client consulting, CRM, ATS, LinkedIn Recruiter, Boolean Search, Business Development, Client Manager

Could you introduce yourself and tell us about you? Your current / recent jobs and employers? Previous companies and jobs? She has 5+ years of experience in executive search. She began her career as a Research Associate at XXXX, where her day-to-day work included building longlists through market mapping and Boolean searches, compiling organizational charts of target companies, and conducting initial reference checks for shortlisted candidates.  She then moved to XXXX as a Consultant, Executive Search, where her role shifted toward candidate and client-facing work; her daily tasks included running competency-based interviews, preparing candidate assessment reports for clients, and managing candidate communication through each stage of the process, from first approach through offer stage. She also began supporting business development at this stage, joining client pitch meetings and helping draft search proposals and fee agreements. Currently, she is a Client Manager, Executive Search at XXXX, where she owns client relationships end-to-end for a portfolio of retained mandates, typically running 4 to 6 concurrent searches at a time across mid-to-senior leadership roles. Her daily work involves running client intake meetings to scope the mandate, briefing and managing the research team, presenting shortlists and interview feedback directly to clients, negotiating offer terms and counter-offer situations between candidates and clients, and reporting search progress and timelines back to client stakeholders. Overall, she has closed 10+ retained searches over the past two years with an average search-to-placement time of around 12 weeks, and has personally originated several new client mandates through repeat business and referrals from existing clients. What skill(s) / experience would you self-describe as strongest or specialist in? Her strongest skills are business development and client consulting; she is comfortable running intake meetings where she has to push back on unrealistic client expectations around role scope, budget, or timeline, and has experience turning existing client relationships into repeat mandates rather than one-off assignments. She also considers negotiation a core strength, particularly managing counter-offer situations and compensation gaps between what a client is willing to pay and what a candidate is asking for, where she has to manage both sides’ expectations without losing the placement. Alongside this, she has solid project management skills from running multiple concurrent searches at different stages at once, keeping longlist, shortlist, interview, and offer stages moving in parallel across her portfolio without missing client-agreed timelines. Her communication skills come through in how she packages candidate assessments for clients, translating interview notes and competency evaluations into a clear recommendation a hiring committee can act on quickly. On tools, she is strong with LinkedIn Recruiter and Boolean search strings for candidate and market mapping, and uses an executive search CRM/ATS (Invenias) daily to track candidates, client contacts, and search stages across her portfolio. She also uses PitchBook and BoardEx for org-mapping and market intelligence when scoping a new mandate, and is comfortable pulling together search progress and pipeline reports in Excel and PowerPoint for client-facing updates.

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Embedded Automotive C C++ CAN ADAS

1. Could you introduce yourself and tell us about you? Your current / recent jobs and employers? Previous companies and jobs? He has about 10 years of experience now within the automotive domain and has experience in software development, requirements collection, system validation, and global team management with Tier 1 suppliers, OEMs, and so on. He started his career with XXXX as a Senior Programmer where he did software development and was deployed to XXXX; he was responsible back then for ADAS module and Engine module. After that, he joined XXXX and was initially deployed to XXXX as a Customer Interface and Validation Engineer, he was again responsible for ADAS module before moving to XXXX where he collaborated with offshore and onsite team, also acted as a Software Product Owner. He was a Senior Technical Leader with XXXX as well and was responsible for managing different teams including software development, testing, and others globally. Right now, he’s with XXXX as a System Validation Engineer where he was responsible for infotainment, clusters and displays, and mostly doing software level testing in the vehicles. 2. What skill(s) / experience would you self-describe as strongest or specialist in? Strongest skill would be his software development and design skills, he has great experience with requirement analysis, global team coordination, bug tracking, and system validation as well. In terms of programming languages, he’s good with C, C++, Embedded C, and different protocols such as CAN, Bluetooth, UART, and more. 3. Do you have the lists of key criteria’s according to the clients’ requirements? He has about 5-6 years of experience within the software embedded development side and has always been in the automotive side since the beginning of his career; he has prior experience to software design and implementation as well. Strong with C development as well; familiar in using lab equipment including oscilloscopes, multimeters, and all.

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C C++ Verilog Embedded Automotive Development & Design Simulink AUTOSAR

1. Could you introduce yourself and tell us about you? Your current / recent jobs and employers? Previous companies and jobs? He has about 35 years of experience now in the industry, specifically in development and design for factory automation, automotive ECU, USB Audio, and microcontroller designing for FPGA, SOC, and so on. He is currently running XXXX, his own business, and he is doing Development & Design Engineering there; mostly doing evaluation of performance for SoC, CPU, GPU of EFI and ADAS, also do development of IPL and BSW of Linux for ADAS, BSW of AUTOSAR, USB Audio, and other types of projects depending on their client’s needs. Previous to this, he did a project for XXXX where he did development of BSW and Integration for Car Multimedia ECU, custom IP, and so on. He was also a Team Lead of Evaluation Engineering back then where they improved the performance of the web browser of Car-Multimedia ECU. 2. What skill(s) / experience would you self-describe as strongest or specialist in? Strongest skill would be development and designing; he’s good with hardware designing, writing IPO drivers, and model-based designing. He also does code generation, porting to the BSW, and so on. In terms of technical side, he’s still doing hands-on coding, software design, and implementation using C, C++, Verilog, Simulink, and also Linux. He is strongest within the automotive industry, although he doesn’t have mass production experience, factory automation, microcontrollers, and similar industries. 3. Do you have the lists of key criteria’s according to the clients’ requirements? He has more than 35 years of experience within the embedded software development and has strong working experience within the automotive domain as well; he is strong with AUTOSAR, SoC, USB-DAC, and more. He has worked with some OEMs especially Honda. Right now, he’s managing his own business so he can only accept project-based or contractual roles.

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C C++ Embedded Software Validation Testing Automotive

1. Could you introduce yourself and tell us about you? Your current / recent jobs and employers? Previous companies and jobs? He has overall experience of about 14 years within the software embedded industry and about 10 years within the automotive domain alone; has a lot of experience with system design, analysis testing, and even validation testing. He is currently working with XXXX and has been with them for over two years now as an Engineering Consultant where he’s responsible for validation testing in ADAS; he is the one receiving information from their OEM customers then proceeds to feature validation based on the customer requirements. Previous to this, he was with XXXX as a Lead Engineer where he worked on IVI system design and maintenance together with his customers; he also supported different features such as Automobile Collision Call/Emergency Call, Breakdown Call, and more. He also was with XXXX as a Technical Leader where he managed teams including risk engineering, project management, system, and software engineering, and so on. 2. What skill(s) / experience would you self-describe as strongest or specialist in? Strongest skill would be his communication and coordination skills between different teams including ones from Japan and Taiwan, mostly development teams. When it comes to the technical side of things, he’s strong with telematics, IVI, IVC, and on programming languages, he’s good with C, C++, Java, C#, and more. 3. Do you have the lists of key criteria’s according to the clients’ requirements? Has more than 12 years of experience within the embedded software industry and has about five years of experience in hands-on coding and development; right now, he’s more focused on validation testing, analysis testing, and system design but would still be open for roles with software design and development. Strong C and C++ programming experience. He has more than 10 years of experience in the automotive industry as well and has worked with OEMs including Nissan, Mitsubishi, and Honda; also tier ones like Bosch, Continental, Valeo, and more.

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Embedded Testing ECU Python HMI CAN Communication C Automotive

1. Could you introduce yourself and tell us about you? Your current / recent jobs and employers? Previous companies and jobs? He ‘s originally from France and is currently living in Japan for almost 2 years now; currently enrolled in a Japanese Language School and will graduate by the end of the month. He is initially more of a Mechanic Engineer, related to the automotive industry but his previous experiences are more onto the embedded systems side including testing, debugging, and quality assurance of the software side. His main experience was from XXXX, where he was doing testing for agricultural machinery for XXXX; his purpose there was to test the embedded system including the ECUs of the vehicle, the HMI, and everything that is controlling the drivetrain, the tools, and more. He tested most of the vehicles since their team was quite small and that experience gave him knowledge regarding CAN communication, code reading, and even though he can read code, see problems in code, he is not able to write a complex code for now. Apart from these, he was driving the prototypes, logging, monitor signals/feedback, and so on. His experiences before that was mostly with shorter durations in the same domain, mainly ECU testing for vehicles. 2. What skill(s) / experience would you self-describe as strongest or specialist in? Strongest skill and expertise would be regarding the testing side; he can read codes and review codes to be able to figure out problems out of it. He considers himself with strong capacity in interpreting and analysing problems, and writing something for the developers to efficiently solve the problems in the minimum amount of time possible. When it comes to tools and technologies, he can read Python, C, and more. 3. Do you have the lists of key criteria’s according to the clients’ requirements? He has been in the automotive industry for more than 2 years now, and has always been in the testing or quality assurance side. He is open to take on any roles that are related to embedded systems for vehicles.

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Cloud, AppSec, SAST, SCA, DAST, PoC, consulting

1.       Could you introduce yourself and tell us about you? Your current / recent jobs and employers? Previous companies and jobs? He is a Senior Solutions Engineer and Pre-Sales Engineer with a strong background in cloud technologies, DevSecOps, application security, and partner enablement. His career began in Japan as a Software Developer, where he worked on large-scale enterprise systems before transitioning into cloud consulting and infrastructure automation. At XXXX, one of Japan’s leading AWS partners, he functioned as a Solutions Architect, helping customers design AWS architectures, identify technical pain points, and build cloud migration strategies aligned with business goals. He later joined XXXX, spending four years supporting partners and enterprise customers through partner enablement, joint business planning, cloud adoption programs, customer success initiatives, and technical strategy development. His vendor-side experience includes roles at XXXX, XXXX, XXXX, and currently XXXX, where he serves as the only Japan-based Solutions Engineer supporting both Japan and APJ initiatives. At XXXX, his responsibilities cover technical discovery sessions, enterprise demonstrations, proof-of-concepts, DevSecOps consulting, application security advisory, and cross-functional collaboration with global teams. He has achieved significant recognition in his career, most notably being named the 2025 APJ Top Solutions Engineer and honored as the Top Solutions Engineer globally at XXXX during the company’s Sales Kickoff. In 2025, he attained 111.74% of his annual target, exceeding expectations and demonstrating both technical and commercial impact. Beyond his assigned local region, he supported strategic enterprise opportunities, including providing technical leadership on a major AMER enterprise deal while based in Japan. His contributions earned recognition from global sales leadership for his impact outside of APJ, further highlighting his ability to operate effectively across regions. As the sole Japan-based Solutions Engineer, he successfully drove business growth and customer adoption, reinforcing his reputation as a trusted technical leader with global influence. 2.       What skill(s) / experience would you self-describe as strongest or specialist in? He specializes in Solution Engineering, DevSecOps, Cloud Platforms, Application Security, and Enterprise Technical Consulting. His technical background spans SAST, SCA, DAST, shift-left security, and emerging areas such as AI-generated code security and AI-SPM. He has strong hands-on experience with AWS and Google Cloud Platform, including VPC, IAM, containerized environments, and database services. His DevOps exposure covers JFrog, GitHub, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and GitLab, enabling him to support secure software delivery pipelines. With a development foundation in Java, Python, Ruby, and JavaScript, alongside experience in Apache, Tomcat, and Nginx, he brings strong technical credibility to his solution engineering role. His responsibilities include technical discovery, solution demonstrations, PoC leadership, and enterprise consulting, with a focus on mapping technical solutions to business value. He also excels in partner enablement, channel support, technical training, and joint business planning, while maintaining strong executive communication skills.

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Embedded Software Automotive C C++ Python Software Design Integration Closed SILS

1. Could you introduce yourself and tell us about you? Your current / recent jobs and employers? Previous companies and jobs? He is originally from Bangladesh and did his graduation in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. After graduation, he worked in a heavy machinery company for about three years mainly doing software embedded design for their hydraulic system of heavy machineries. Then he came to Japan and started working as a Software Quality Control Engineer, worked on testing automation mainly with Python and other testing tools; he worked there for about 2.5 years and also did manual test, bug reporting, preparing test report, and more. After that, he moved to XXXX, a toy producer company, as an Embedded Software Engineer where he had the chance to collaborate and talk to Japanese Toy OEM, get their requirement, and based on those requirements, create a design and continue with the development up to the testing part. After that, he moved to XXXX as a Senior Software Engineer where he was involved with the development of camera’s GUI part, mainly worked on their architecture, and had the chance to develop some features of the cameras as well. Right now, he’s with XXXX, working under XXXX, as a Software Integration Engineer where he’s mainly running the CI/CD for static analysis then look for bugs and perform bug fixing afterward. Also doing the automation part and also being involved in the Closed SILS simulation and evaluation. They are currently working on an ADAS project and is working on a meter software with the development team; they deploy the software based on the requirement, do the simulation, and check if the system is behaving correctly. 2. What skill(s) / experience would you self-describe as strongest or specialist in? Strongest skill would be his accumulated experience from different fields and industry, and on the technical side, it would be variety of programming languages including C (4-5 years), C++ (4 years), Python (4 years) since he considers them his main tech stack. Apart from that, he’s good with Git, Microsoft Visual Code/Visual Studio, and various compilers based on platform (Linux, Windows). Some of his achievements would include his time working with the previous company where they completely created and implemented a new camera feature from scratch; they didn’t have much background since it was completely new but after analysing, designing, and revising a couple of times, he was able to implement the whole feature and got the approval of the camera makers. Another one is from his current company, where he created an automation tool for their data and various components so that after each cycle of the static analysis, it will automatically grab the data and give the result once it’s open. 3. Do you have the lists of key criteria’s according to the clients’ requirements? Has about 10 years of experience in software embedded engineering, still doing hands-on development with C and C++ up until now; he’s not actively involved now in software design since he’s more on the testing side but previously, he was doing a lot of software design and implementation so he is confident to do this again for future roles. He also has experience using different lab equipment such as oscilloscope and other instrument to test the development board and the output.

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