Jason Constam

Background

About Jason Constam

I have a passion for firmware. It is the glue that binds high-level outcomes to the hardware that's executing the task. Over the last 17 years, I have been honing my C development skills in the oil and gas and home automation industries. I have worked on teams as small as three engineers and as large as several dozen people across multiple disciplines and countries. Projects I have worked on have ranged from bare-metal devices with a few kB of RAM up to asymmetric multi-core systems running both an RTOS and embedded Linux. In addition to writing code, I have extensive experience in firmware design and architecture. I am a staunch advocate for applying standard software development principles into the firmware world (where they are not as common). I have added unit testing (Google Test/Ceedling/CMock), code coverage (gcov), and static analysis (Parasoft CppTest/cppcheck/clang-tidy) to multiple existing projects. In addition I have setup Continuous Integration systems using Jenkins, Azure DevOps, and GitHub Actions and created/managed the build environments in Linux and Windows (both bare metal and in virtual machines) as well as with Docker containers. I also strongly believe in automating system regression testing. I have done this using National Instruments TestStand and the Robot Framework. This has given me experience in writing C# and Python. I am a licensed and practising Professional Engineer in the province of Alberta.