Blake Wells

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Embedded Engineer at HubSpot · Embedded systems · hardware bring-up, RTOS

HubSpot
Austin, TX · CT (UTC-6)
1+ years experience
University of Wisconsin–Madison
English
Open to work
Messaging unavailable

Overview

Based in Austin. I work on embedded systems at HubSpot. Grew the firmware team from 4 to 36 engineers. Most at home with RTOS and C.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Roles in embedded systems
  • Second opinions on RTOS decisions
  • Speaking or podcast invitations
Please don't message about
  • Requests to fix your code for free
  • Agency or outsourcing pitches

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Skills
RTOSARM Cortex-MChardware bring-up
Open to workLooking for a role
closes in 3 months

Next role: Embedded Engineer in robotics, Austin or hybrid

Target roles
Embedded Engineer
Level
Mid
Industries
Climate tech, Healthtech
Work mode
Remote
Available
From next quarter
Work authorization
Authorized to work in the TX
What I'm looking for
A team that ships weekly and owns firmware end to end.
Not interested in
Night shifts

1 years in embedded systems. Strongest at hardware bring-up and ARM Cortex-M. Serving notice now.

Austin, TX · remote OKhardware bring-uprtosarm cortex-m
Open

Experience

  1. Embedded Engineer
    Oct 2025 - Present
    HubSpot · 1 yr · Full-time · Austin, TX
    • Brought on-call pages for firmware down from 21 a week to 1.
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 32 minutes to under 3.

Projects

Write-up: embedded systems in practice
2024

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

Open-source ARM Cortex-M toolkit
2023

A small library for embedded systems that 434 developers star on GitHub.

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Education

  1. University of Wisconsin–Madison
    BS, Information Technology
    2021 - 2025

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