Summary
Jacob Higgins is a seasoned embedded software engineer at Garmin, focusing on embedded Linux, video I/O, thread safety, cache coherency, and DRM/KMS, with eight years of hands-on hardware-software experience. He earned a B.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 2021 and is based in Kansas City, Missouri. His technical scope spans microcontroller development (I2C, ADC/DAC), in-circuit programming, and hardware–software integration on projects like prosthetic hand hardware and FreeRTOS-based system porting. He has proven leadership and cross-disciplinary collaboration, from captaining the Mizzou Esports team to contributing on international, multi-disciplinary ABB projects advancing power-efficient, solar IoT devices. In addition to engineering, he runs a YouTube channel with 44k+ subscribers, showcasing his ability to explain complex concepts clearly and build communities around technology.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
University of Missouri