Ken Nierenhausen

General telecom system development in C++11 for user, system, and kernel on headend sat/cable/ip video products. User level daemon design and development for complete satellite headend system. Secure booting and driver development to support secure memory allocation and fpga encryption. User and system level development for radio product to encode and decode audio watermarking. FPGA Interfaces and software wrappers.

Designed and developed CLI, hardware components, and user experience for Tessel 2 platform. General embedded development for Tessel and Tessel 2 platform including drivers, chip bring up, language support (aka Rust, python, etc). Implemented node middleware servers to process incoming orders from storefront to fulfillment.

Leanly advised and tutored students starting a tech businesses via works of Brant Cooper. Managed back end infrastructure including team virtual machines and security camera system.

Developed test automation framework for satcom communication system via twisted python. Delegated work to automation testing team, managed project timeline, incorporated companywide feedback into project

Designed and developed internal utilities for production to use for burn in and final configuration Developed internal utilities for developers to debug video encoders/decoders Video encoder/decoder software & hardware testing, configuration, maintenance, and technical documentation