Desmond Darnell Taylor

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Staff Embedded Engineer at Salesforce | ex-HP

Salesforce
New York, NY · ET (UTC-5)
7+ years experience
Boston University
English
Co-founder
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Overview

Currently at Salesforce, where I work on embedded systems. Moved 83% of firmware traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident. Most at home with embedded Linux and RTOS. Learning Japanese, slowly.

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Skills
ARM Cortex-Membedded LinuxChardware bring-upBluetooth LERTOS
Co-founderLooking for a co-founder
closes in 3 months

Looking for a commercial co-founder for invoice financing for European fintechs

The idea
Invoice financing for European fintechs
Stage
Early revenue
I bring
13 years in embedded systems
Looking for
Product-minded engineer
Commitment
Full-time after funding
Location
New York or remote

I bring 7 years of embedded systems (currently Salesforce). Ideally you've built ML systems in production. Full-time from day one.

New York, NY · remote OKrtoshardware bring-uparm cortex-m
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Experience

  1. Staff Embedded Engineer
    Jul 2022 - Present
    Salesforce · 4 yr 3 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
    • Shipped 30 launches on the firmware team without a rollback.
    • Brought on-call pages for firmware down from 32 a week to 4.
    • Reduced cloud spend on firmware by 27% in two quarters.
  2. Embedded Engineer
    Oct 2019 - Jul 2022
    HP · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
    • Shipped 26 launches on the firmware team without a rollback.

Projects

Conference talk: lessons from firmware
2026

What went wrong and what worked while scaling embedded systems.

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Education

  1. Boston University
    BS, Electrical Engineering
    2015 - 2019

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