Timothy Tucker

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Senior Embedded Engineer at Salesforce · Embedded systems · Bluetooth LE, ARM Cortex-M

Salesforce
Dallas, TX · CT (UTC-6)
7+ years experience
Arizona State University
English
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Overview

Currently at Salesforce, where I work on embedded systems. Brought on-call pages for firmware down from 13 a week to 3. Built the experimentation framework 7 product teams use to ship changes safely. Before that: Cisco and Reddit. I teach a weekend class on RTOS.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Collaborators for my side project
  • People who want to build this with me
  • Speaking or podcast invitations
  • Questions about embedded systems
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  • Offshore staffing offers
  • Requests to fix your code for free
Skills
Bluetooth LECRTOSembedded LinuxARM Cortex-Mhardware bring-up
CollaboratingLooking to collaborate
closes in 3 months

Looking for collaborators on an open-source Bluetooth LE toolkit

Project
An open-source Bluetooth LE toolkit
Skills needed
Design, hardware bring-up
Time commitment
A few hours a week
Outcome
Published guide

A few hours a week. Async-first.

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Co-founderLooking for a co-founder
closes in 3 months

Need a commercial co-founder: payroll in MENA

The idea
Payroll in MENA
Stage
Customer interviews
I bring
8 years in embedded systems
Looking for
Technical co-founder who has shipped B2B software
Commitment
Part-time to start
Location
Dallas or remote

I bring 7 years of embedded systems (currently Salesforce). Ideally you've shipped B2B software. Full-time from day one.

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Experience

  1. Senior Embedded Engineer
    May 2024 - Present
    Salesforce · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Dallas, TX
    • Reduced cloud spend on firmware by 37% in two quarters.
    • Mentored 6 engineers through their first promotion.
    • Moved 72% of firmware traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  2. Embedded Engineer
    Nov 2020 - May 2024
    Cisco · 3 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Dallas, TX
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 35 minutes to under 5.
  3. Embedded Engineer
    Oct 2019 - Nov 2020
    Reddit · 1 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Dallas, TX
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 31 minutes to under 5.
    • Wrote the ARM Cortex-M service that now handles 75 million requests a day.

Projects

Embedded systems benchmark
2026

Reproducible benchmarks comparing embedded Linux and Bluetooth LE on real workloads.

Side project: a recipe search engine
2025

Built with RTOS and Bluetooth LE. 710 people used it last year.

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Education

  1. Arizona State University
    BS, Computer Science
    2015 - 2019

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