# Shotaro Uchida > Embedded System Engineer Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/shotaro I have 12+ years of experience with Embedded Systems especially focused on Wireless Connectivity and IoT industry. I was working on several projects for Sensor Networking & Home Automation. I have expert skills in: • Bringing up the embedded system project from scratch with designing and implementing the proof-of-concept for both hardware and software. • Bringing up the custom Linux BSP for the various embedded systems. • Design and implement the network protocol stacks for the embedded systems. • Design and implement firmware for the embedded systems both RTOS and Linux based. • Design and implement custom OpenEmbedded layers for Yocto project based system. The example of the technologies I used in my professional experience: • RTOS based systems: Free RTOS, QNX, Zephyr, RTX • ARM-based general purpose microcontrollers: STM32F4, STM32H7, EFM32 series • Wireless microcontrollers: ESP32, EFR32, nRF5, EM358x, MW300 • Embedded Linux systems (Application SoC): i.MX series, R-Car, OMAP, Sitara • Build & DevOps: OpenEmbedded, GitLab, CMake, AWS infrastructure ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Universal Audio Jan 2024 – Present | Scotts Valley, California, United States ### Head of Engineering @ HOMMA Group, Inc Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 ### Software Development Engineer @ Amazon Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Sunnyvale, California, United States Member of the Amazon Alexa Automotive engineering team working on the confidential project for bringing the audio-first experiences in vehicles. ### Full Stack Software Development Engineer @ Amazon Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Sunnyvale, California, United States Member of the Concept Engineering team focused on new product ideas and markets within Amazon Lab126, includes but not limited to IoT products, Smart Home, and Wearable devices. • Confidential Project #1: Designed and implemented the Alexa Voice Service client software for enabling Alexa experiences on the various microcontroller-based (RTOS-based) embedded systems. The target system includes Espressif ESP32, Mediatek MT7697, and i.MX RT600, with or without Digital Signal Processing units. • Confidential Project #2: Responsible for leading the research project that will focus on to the capacitive sensing technology with the various sensing methods and materials. The purpose of this project is to seek the sensing methods that can be applied to the large surfaces inside the room such as walls, ceilings or floors, for detecting and analyzing the whole human body motion. ### Software Development Engineer @ Amazon Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Sunnyvale, California Member of the Amazon Alexa Automotive engineering team focused on developing embedded software solutions (Alexa Auto SDK) for integrating Amazon’s Alexa voice service in vehicles. The Alexa Auto SDK contains essential client-side software required to integrate Alexa into the automobile. The Auto SDK provides libraries that connect to Alexa and expose C++ and Java interfaces for your vehicle software to implement the platform-specific behavior for audio input, media streaming, calling through a connected phone, turn-by-turn navigation, controlling vehicle features such as heaters and lights, and more. I was primarily responsible for the cross-platform support for Alexa Auto SDK, platforms including QNX, Automotive Grade Linux, Android, and Poky Linux. Along with the platform support, I was also responsible for the various software module on audio capture/playback functionalities. ### Senior Engineer @ Kinoma Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Tokyo, Japan Working with the same Kinoma engineering team in Santa Clara from the previous position. The team released several new hardware products, and I developed several software components for those products. ### Software Engineer @ Kinoma Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Santa Clara, California, United States Joined the small Kinoma team group within the semiconductor company. The Kinoma team focused on JavaScript-based hardware prototyping solutions for the IoT industry. I was responsible for the embedded Linux system development and built a ZigBee home automation demo. ### Embedded System Engineer @ Telepathy Inc. Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Sunnyvale, CA Joined the startup company in Silicon Valley to develop the wearable smart-glass device. Within the software development team, I was in charge of design, architect, and develop Linux-based operating system for the device. I also helped the hardware engineering team for PCB design, testing, and evaluation. ### Lead/Senior Engineer @ Valley Campus, Inc. Jan 2009 – Jan 2014 * ZigBee Gateway Development (Second Generation) Development of “ZigBee Gateway Device” specification compatible device. Responsibility of ARM SoC based hardware design. Responsibility of Linux-based operating system design. * ZigBee Gateway Development (First Generation) Development of Java-Chip based Zigbee Gateway. Responsibility of device driver development. Responsibility of hardware design. Developed WiFi networking stack entirely written in Java. * Pure Java ZigBee Stack Development Responsibility of software design for ZigBee application layer stack. Development of several ZigBee specification implementation. Development of ZigBee device drivers. * M2M Sensor Cloud ZigBee APL layer-as-a-Service Implement ZigBee Cluster Library in Cloud using Reslet, Amazon EC2, MongoDB Manage ZND Devices and Sensors. * ZigBee Sensor Devices Development Responsibility of PCB design and electrical schematics. Responsibility of firmware development. ### Software Engineer @ SIC Inc. Jan 2006 – Jan 2009 * Business Software Development Responsibility of Web System Architect Server/Database Administration Development of Desktop applications with JavaSE. ## Education ### Associate’s Degree in Computer Science Tokyo National College of Technology ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/suchida - Website: http://xmaker.mx/ --- Source: https://flows.cv/shotaro JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/shotaro/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-01