Embedded / Firmware Engineer

Learn C: the language behind operating systems, embedded firmware, and the foundation of nearly every modern language. Manual control, explicit memory, no surprises. Every lesson is hands-on with real gcc execution.

Learn modern C++: the language behind game engines, browsers, and high-performance systems. Strong static types, manual control where you need it, an enormous standard library (STL). Every lesson is hands-on with real g++ execution.

Level up from C++ Fundamentals. Pointers in depth, dynamic memory, smart pointers, RAII, the Rule of Five, move semantics, templates, and exception safety. The features that turn working code into idiomatic modern C++.

Learn Rust: a systems language with the safety of a high-level one. Ownership, borrowing, pattern matching, zero-cost abstractions. Every lesson is hands-on with real cargo execution.

Level up from Rust Fundamentals. Ownership in depth, traits and trait objects, generics, lifetimes, iterator chains, Result/Option chaining, closures. The features that make Rust feel like Rust.

Beyond Rust Intermediate. Smart pointers (Box, Rc, RefCell), interior mutability, trait objects, declarative macros, unsafe basics. The features that close the gap between Rust and C++.

Learn x86_64 assembly: the instructions your CPU actually runs. Once you've written a hello world by directly invoking the Linux write syscall, you understand programs and the OS in a way no high-level language can teach.

Build malloc/free from scratch: bump allocator, free lists, splitting and coalescing, size classes, thread-local caches. By the end you'll understand what every allocator (jemalloc, tcmalloc, ptmalloc) actually does.

Build a RISC-V RV32I simulator: register file, instruction decoding (R/I/S/B/U/J formats), ALU + load/store + branch + jump execution, calling convention, syscalls, and the fetch-decode-execute loop. Same architecture as Spike, QEMU's RISC-V mode.

Build the simplest possible emulator: 35 opcodes, 4KB RAM, 16 registers, 64x32 display. Plays Pong, Tetris, Space Invaders. The on-ramp to NES, Game Boy, and bigger emulator projects.