A Certified LabVIEW Embedded Systems Developer (CLED) demonstrates proficiency and expertise in designing, developing, debugging, and deploying reliable mission-critical embedded control and monitoring applications based on CompactRIO, Single-Board RIO, and/or R Series hardware. A CLED efficiently uses the LabVIEW Real-Time and LabVIEW FPGA modules in accordance with best practices and software engineering principles to design modular, scalable, and maintainable embedded systems.