Embedded Software Engineer
Malik Stuart
Passionate Software Engineer working on embedded systems.
About
Who is Malik?
I'm Malik, a Software Engineer with a passion for technology. At my day job I work in aerospace & defense as an Embedded Software Engineer, building reliable systems. I love taking on technical challenges and diving deep into the weeds.
Off the job I love to poke at ideas. I do a lot of research in the systematic trading and finance space. I have passion for the field and have spent years in my free time pushing in this area. Lately outside of that, I've been generally trying to embrace the "you can just do things" mantra, building fun things for myself, prototyping tools for being productive, exploring more, and figuring it out as I go.
I'm also a fan of mentoring and lending a hand to devs where I can! Outside of the keyboard, I enjoy olympic weightlifting, throwing mini cannonballs and embracing my health journey, sharing and assisting others with their own along the way.
Core Skills
What I Work With
Embedded Systems
Building and maintaining embedded software for aerospace & defense applications. Writing low level & high level userspace software, working with device drivers, and aiming towards performance and reliability.
Software Development
Designing and shipping software across domains, from systems programming work to backend services and tooling. Biased towards procedural, direct code that attempts to do what it says.
Systematic Trading
Researching and building systematic equity strategies as a side pursuit. Interested in research, market data infrastructure, and seeing how far systems can be taken.
Experience
Where I've Worked
SRC Inc
Embedded Software Engineer
Maintainer and developer on embedded Linux software across numerous kernel drivers, libraries and user-space applications, Yocto/PetaLinux build systems, and ARM and SBC based deployment environments. Kernel driver development for 32 and 64 bit architectures spanning interrupts, DMA, PCIe, AXI, and netlink workflows. Migrations across major kernel versions and custom BSP & boot flow work on Xilinx SoC systems.
SRC Inc
STELR Engineer / Rotational Engineering Leadership Program
Completed a rotational engineering program spanning software tools, test engineering, GUI development, and embedded software. Worked on Windows GUI tooling in C#, rebuilt Python-based test tooling to reduce dependence on direct lab equipment, created automated test harnesses, and supported lab workflows with procedural documentation and tooling setup.
Indiana Institute of Technology
Lab Monitor / CS & Math Tutor
Supported students in computer science and math courses while helping maintain a productive lab environment and assisting professors. Also where my love for general mentoring began.
Projects
Things I've Built
Automated Finance
Built a broker agnostic automated trading system for researching and executing multi-asset, multi-strategy portfolios. The system uses daily resolution market data, modular strategy logic, risk controls, and broker specific execution adapters to support systematic trading across multiple financial brokers.
Info Packer
Small internal CLI that takes rule-based configurations, points to a directory and individual files, and combines them into a single annotated markdown file.
Oikairn
An early-stage CLI tool for system state observability. Runs configured probes via osquery, persists snapshots to SQLite, and tracks meaningful changes on your host machine over time, surfacing what was added, removed, or changed between observations and dispatching local alerts.
Tooling
Info Packer
A small CLI that takes rule-based configs, points at files and directories, and bundles everything into a single annotated context file.
Contact
Get in Touch
Whether you're looking to chat about tech, have an opportunity to discuss, or just want to connect, I'd love to hear from you!