Caleb Provost | Embedded Systems Engineer, Available for Contract Work

About

My path into electronics started at 7, taking apart radio-controlled cars to see how they worked, and continued through my high school's electronics club and the College Now program.

I hold a Bachelor's degree in Engineering Technology-Computers from DeVry University (2019, ABET-certified) and a Master's in Electrical Engineering, Embedded Systems, from the University of Colorado Boulder (2024), earned while working full-time.

Before that, I spent two years in hands-on electronics/hardware technician roles, commercial HVAC controls and high-volume repair diagnostics, that built the foundation for everything since.

Since 2019 I've worked across automotive infotainment firmware, regulated R&D test instrumentation, and now engineering leadership for a connected medical-device sensing platform. Specifics are in the case studies below.

Skills

Firmware & Embedded Systems

C/C++, Python, RTOS & bare-metal, ESP32, STM32, Arm Cortex-M, RISC-V, Arduino, Altera/Xilinx/NIOS FPGAs, SPI/I2C/UART/ADC, device drivers

Electronics & Hardware

Schematic review, component selection, analog/digital circuit design, power management, sensor integration & signal conditioning, PCB tools (Altium/KiCad), oscilloscopes, logic analyzers

Connectivity & Systems Integration

BLE / BLE Mesh, WiFi, MQTT, CAN bus, IoT architecture, sensor-to-cloud data pipelines, AWS IoT

Verification, Quality & Regulatory Compliance

Design verification & validation (V&V), test fixture design, root cause analysis (5-Why, Fishbone, 8D), risk assessment / DFMEA, design controls, QMS documentation, Class II (510(k)-exempt) medical device compliance

Engineering Leadership & Delivery

Technical strategy & build-vs-buy evaluation, release/roadmap management, cross-functional stakeholder communication, project ownership from requirements to delivery, Agile/Scrum, Git, CI/CD

Case Studies

Connected Medical-Device Sensing

Wicked Technologies, Mar 2026 to Present

Leads engineering for a connected smart-textile sensing platform (wearable and bedding sensor hardware with hub connectivity) used in care-facility environments. Directed the response to a critical in-field firmware regression, coordinating an emergency release rollback and remediation plan that protected deployed units across 4 care facilities from a data-loss failure mode. Led a build-vs-buy evaluation for the connected Hub's connectivity architecture that informed a roadmap decision to build hardware variants for existing deployments and new products closing capability gaps in the platform. Leads cross-functional deployment reviews with several major care-facility customers, using field analytics to shape both subsequent deployments and product development. Also owns design-control and QMS work for a Class II, 510(k)-exempt medical device.

Automotive Infotainment & Sensing

Radio Sound, Dec 2019 to Mar 2026

Designed, built, and tested embedded firmware and electronics for automotive sensing and infotainment systems end-to-end, from early prototypes through production, including real-time sensor integration, CAN bus communication, BLE/IoT features, and signal processing on ARM and Tensilica-based microcontrollers. Developed system-level integration enabling real-time vehicle monitoring and media features across 3 production platforms, and designed verification tests that reduced the manufacturing failure rate by 98%.

Regulated R&D Test Instrumentation

Electrolux, Aug 2018 to Apr 2020

Designed and built custom test fixtures and data-acquisition systems for product validation and long-term reliability testing in a regulated manufacturing environment, reducing test setup time by 4 hours a day. Performed root cause analysis and risk-assessment work that fed back into product redesign, including a material and vendor change that reduced the coffee product line's failure rate by 48%, and contributed to compliance sign-off on 5 product releases.