Thirty years of making cars stop. Matt LaDuke — automotive embedded software, southeast Michigan.

I'm a software project manager for an automotive supplier, leading customer-facing programs. Before that I spent most of three decades as an engineer: braking software, AUTOSAR integration, and the unglamorous work of getting a controller to behave the same way on the ten-thousandth car as on the first. My degree is in hardware, which still shows in how I think about software.

Whatever the problem, I'd rather find the root cause than patch the symptom. That's true of a fault in a brake ECU and it's true of a program that's slipping its dates.

Away from work

Correspondence chess through ICCF, where a single game can run a year. Baseball, mostly the Tigers, including a full-season Strat-O-Matic replay that has become its own small engineering project. A slow, self-directed tour through the computer science I skipped the first time: compilers, Rust, and more mathematics than I expected to enjoy. Every December, Advent of Code in Python.

Elsewhere