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San Mateo, California, United States

San Francisco, California, United States

Mountain View, California, United States

• Developed a shared memory scheme for inter-process communication framework; tested and deployed on autonomous vehicle software stack• Wrote and validated embedded I2C temperature sensor driver on custom hardware

San Mateo, California, United States

• Sensor bring-up for next generation drone products• Wrote async SPI driver for time of flight sensor, integrated with FreeRTOS• Developed radiometric thermal imaging camera driver on embedded Linux for thermal inspection applications

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

• Mentored team members, conducted code reviews, and coordinated weekly meetings of 10-15 peopleCAN Design Project• Led the design, development, and testing of a new rover CAN infrastructure for inter-board communication• Integrated DBC generation suite for scalability, modularized message handling scheme, and dual-CAN support for redundancy

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Arm Control Project• Developed asynchronous SPI driver in C++ for absolute encoders onboard rover arm, science, and gimbal mechanismsPower Distribution Board Project• Designed the power distribution PCB supplying 24V, 17V, and 5V to custom PCBs onboard the Mars rover• Features buck-boost and buck converters, high-side load switches, reverse polarity protection, STM32 MCU, CAN transceivers, RS-485 transceiver• Wrote application firmware to monitor rail and load voltages and report alerts over CANLocalization Project• Developed IMU firmware to supply gyroscope, accelerometer, and magnetometer data over SPI• Researched Kalman Filters, EKFs, UKFs, and particle filters for the development of robot localization software• Performed schematic capture, PCB layout, and board bring-up of a 4-layer PCB interfacing a 9 DOF IMU and GPS receiver with an STM32 microcontrollerBrushed DC Motor Controller Project• Performed PCB layout, PDN analysis, board bring-up and testing of a custom motor controller PCB to drive 12V DC motors

South San Francisco, California, United States

• Developed and shipped production software for autonomous drone delivery ground systems• Designed embedded power telemetry to log power cabinet health and detect high voltage contactor failure modes; added voltage/current polling over I2C and RS485; added extensive unit test coverage• Designed a safety feature to mitigate off-nominal drone recovery procedure; implemented a state machine to handle drone detection behaviour from polled force measurements• Conducted in-field flight tests, presented design proposals to flight operators

Palo Alto, California, United States

• Charging and Power Management Team• Firmware bring-up for next generation vehicle ECU• Architected, developed, and benchmarked an IPC driver which enables multi-core communication through shared memory• Integrated RTOS application code structure on new microprocessor architecture; developed kernel monitoring tools to characterize stack memory usage and RTOS task timings

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

• Ported OpenGL driver and applications in C to Deos RTOS on NXP i.MX8 GPU board• Added multithreaded, ARINC 653 support to a Deos application in C to demonstrate driver functionality in a space and time partitioned environment• Remote-debugged multithreaded OpenGL programs on Deos and embedded Linux targets

Bachelor Of Applied Science - Basc, Mechatronics Engineering

Cumulative GPA: 3.9 Distinctions: First in Class Engineering Scholarship, Dean's Honours List, President's Scholarship of Distinction

Education record

Activities and Societies: FIRST Robotics Team 7476 | Senior Soccer Team | Co-head of Computer Science Club | Math TutorDistinctions.