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Andrea Steele

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CTO, Quartz Data - Bluetooth LE · hardware bring-up · ARM Cortex-M

Works at
Quartz Data
Location
Atlanta, GA · ET (UTC-5)
Experience
12+ years experience
Education
Booth School of Business
Languages
English
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Overview

Currently at Quartz Data, where I lead embedded systems with a team of 51. Grew the firmware team from 4 to 28 engineers. Cut p99 latency on the firmware services from 477ms to 143ms. Before that: Shopify and KPMG. Most at home with ARM Cortex-M and hardware bring-up.

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  • Questions about embedded systems
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Skills
ARM Cortex-MChardware bring-upBluetooth LE

Experience

  1. CTO
    Apr 2025 - Present
    Quartz Data · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Atlanta, GA
    • Reduced cloud spend on firmware by 19% in two quarters.
    • Built the experimentation framework 10 product teams use to ship changes safely.
    • Cut p99 latency on the firmware services from 807ms to 89ms.
  2. Engineering Manager
    Mar 2023 - Dec 2024
    Shopify · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Atlanta, GA
    • Brought on-call pages for firmware down from 16 a week to 3.
  3. Embedded Engineer
    Dec 2019 - Mar 2023
    KPMG · 3 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Atlanta, GA
    • Moved 78% of firmware traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  4. Engineering Manager
    Oct 2017 - Dec 2019
    Lockheed Martin · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Atlanta, GA
    • Brought on-call pages for firmware down from 16 a week to 1.
  5. Embedded Engineer
    Jul 2014 - Aug 2017
    Stripe · 3 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Atlanta, GA
    • Reduced cloud spend on firmware by 26% in two quarters.

Projects

Side project: a reading list app
2025

Built with C and hardware bring-up. 2769 people used it last year.

Write-up: embedded systems in practice
2023

A long-form guide to embedded systems for people starting out.

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Education

  1. Booth School of Business
    MBA, Business Administration
    2011 - 2013
  2. Purdue University
    BS, Electrical Engineering
    2006 - 2010

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