Grant Whitacre

Grant Whitacre has over 20 years of experience in the field of embedded systems engineering. Grant currently works as a Senior Embedded Applications Engineer at Ambiq Micro, where they are responsible for product enablement and customer engagement for ARM Cortex-M4 based MCUs in various embedded applications. Prior to this, Grant worked at NXP Semiconductors as a Strategic Customer Program Manager and Senior Systems Engineer. Grant also spent several years at Freescale Semiconductor, where they held the same position and managed strategic customer engagements for their ARM-based microprocessor family. Before that, they worked at SigmaTel as an Applications Engineering Manager, leading a team of developers and engineers in support of personal media player SDK. Grant began their career at Motorola as a Senior Applications Engineer, providing application support for microcontrollers and developing software in C and assembly.

Grant Whitacre has a Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering from San Jose State University. Grant also holds a Master's Degree in Software Engineering from National University. No specific start or end years are provided for either degree.