Thinhorn LLC

Thinhorn, LLC is an Iowa robotics and general technology/software consulting company with various clients, some in Silicon Valley, California. Engineers support remotely with on-site client time as negotiated. Specializing in Algorithms, System Performance Analysis, System Engineering, and Software support on complex hardware/software systems: - robotic/control system design/analysis - electro-optical system analysis - system architecture/design - system timing analysis and specifications, development of UML sequence diagrams/interaction diagrams - design, implementation of Hierarchical (Finite) State Machines (HSMs) and documentation in UML (statecharts) - integration of hardware/software systems - realtime software development on QNX and on BusyBox Linux - system-oriented software refactoring - simulation and software unit test development, including development of math/physics software models - verification and test planning - requirements management, traceability, and analysis Thinhorn has engineers that recognize that Software/Quality Processes are a critical element of engineering systems and has provided supporting services to clients: - deployment and migration of GitLab, Jenkins, Rundeck, Celery, Subgit, SCM-Manager and similar hosted tools - server virtualization (using VMware VMs, hypervisors) and Docker container support - establishment of development/test/production environments supporting deployment workflows - automation of builds/tests using Jenkins, Google Test (gtest), pyunit - management/deployment of Python virtualenv environments - establishing deterministic build systems/environments - troubleshooting build system issues (CMake, QtCreator's qmake, Bazel, GNU make files) - refactoring legacy systems to improve testability and software revision control Clients have included: - VytronUS, Inc. - Verb Surgical, Inc. - Skybox Imaging (now named Terra Bella / Planet) - Stellar Solutions / QuakeFinder - other