Summary
Aaron Sierra is a seasoned embedded systems engineer and founder who combines hands-on hardware design, FPGA firmware, and Linux-based software with leadership in small-team delivery. With 15 years of experience, he currently leads Bubbl-Tek LLC (since 2023) after a long tenure as Principal Engineer at Extreme Engineering Solutions, where he built and guided Linux support for a broad range of single-board computers and peripherals. He is the primary developer for those efforts, spanning Linux, U-Boot, and iPXE driver development, as well as Windows drivers, across Freescale/NXP and Intel SoCs. His core languages are C and Python, and he excels at system-level debugging—bridging hardware and software debug across the full embedded stack. Based in Madison, Wisconsin, he thrives in cross-team collaborations, turning complex hardware requirements into robust, maintainable software solutions. He has a rare ability to align multiple vendor platforms and open-source tooling to deliver cohesive embedded Linux projects.
16 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer