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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

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.