Jonathan Gilmore

A close-up photographic image of a sleek, matte-black printed circuit board densely populated with tiny surface-mount components, silver solder joints glinting along perfectly routed copper traces. The board rests on a clean, brushed aluminum workbench with a faint reflection beneath it. Cool, diffused studio lighting from above and slightly to the left creates crisp highlights on the component edges and gentle shadows between IC packages, emphasizing precision and order. The background falls into a soft, bluish bokeh of blurred test equipment, oscilloscopes, and logic analyzers. Shot at a shallow depth of field and eye-level angle, the composition is balanced and minimalist, conveying a professional, high-tech atmosphere and photographic realism ideal for an embedded software portfolio hero image.

Embedded Expertise

Embedded C developer crafting dependable firmware and device software for real‑world products.

About

I’m Jonathan Gilmore, an embedded software engineer specialising in C, firmware, and low‑level systems. I design robust, resource‑constrained solutions, from board bring‑up to production, with a focus on reliability, testability, and maintainable code.

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A compact, meticulously wired embedded development setup centered around a small green microcontroller board connected to a larger custom PCB via neat, color-coded jumper wires. The boards sit on a smooth, light grey desktop beside an open laptop showing a blurred code editor on its screen, unreadable but glowing softly. Overhead neutral white studio lighting produces clear, even illumination with subtle reflections on solder pads and USB connectors. A softly out-of-focus background of orderly tools, antistatic mat, and neatly coiled cables keeps the focus on the hardware. Captured from a slightly elevated three-quarter angle with moderate depth of field, the image feels clean, organized, and professional, emphasizing thoughtful embedded software development in a realistic, photographic style.
A close-up photographic image of a sleek, matte-black printed circuit board densely populated with tiny surface-mount components, silver solder joints glinting along perfectly routed copper traces. The board rests on a clean, brushed aluminum workbench with a faint reflection beneath it. Cool, diffused studio lighting from above and slightly to the left creates crisp highlights on the component edges and gentle shadows between IC packages, emphasizing precision and order. The background falls into a soft, bluish bokeh of blurred test equipment, oscilloscopes, and logic analyzers. Shot at a shallow depth of field and eye-level angle, the composition is balanced and minimalist, conveying a professional, high-tech atmosphere and photographic realism ideal for an embedded software portfolio hero image.

Toolchains, Targets, and Domains

Experienced with GCC, Clang, IAR, and arm-none-eabi toolchains on ARM Cortex‑M, AVR, and ESP32 MCUs, building RTOS and bare‑metal systems, device drivers, bootloaders, board support packages, and low‑level peripherals.

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