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Victoria, BC

Victoria, BC

Victoria, BC

• Development of test and characterization systems for prototype radiation detectors
• Integration of detector hardware, FPGA logic, embedded firmware, and software
• Work with Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ and Zynq-7000 SoCs
• Use of Python, NumPy, Matplotlib

Sidney, BC

• Design for Xilinx Virtex UltraScale and Intel Stratix-10 FPGAs
• Use of 100 Gbit and 1 Gbit Ethernet, SPI and I2C buses, DDR4 memory
• Embedded and multi-platform desktop software development in C using CMake, HDF5
• Scripting with Tcl and Python, source control with Git

Victoria, BC

• Developed race strategy analysis and simulation tools
• Used C# and Windows Forms, Visual Studio
• Supported customers in pit lane

Victoria, BC

• Designed a solid-state power distribution unit and CAN steering wheel controller using Altium Designer
• PCB assembly, and testing and integration using lab equipment
• Firmware development for AVR and ARM microcontrollers in C
• Redesigned and built complete engine and vehicle wiring harnesses
• Developed vehicle and tire dynamics simulation tools using Python, MATLAB

Victoria, BC

• Developed 4 GSPS capture and buffer firmware using DDR4 memory interface and 100 Gb and 1 Gb Ethernet
• Used Xilinx Virtex UltraScale FPGA and Vivado and Xilinx SDK development tools
• Integrated FPGA IP cores, soft microprocessor firmware, and embedded Linux software
• Implemented custom SPI interface between Linux and an FPGA
• Wrote firmware for the MicroBlaze soft processor to manage low-level interfaces, respond to commands, and update status registers.
• Implemented in-system FPGA firmware updates using flash memory interface

Palo Alto, CA

• Improved automated battery pack charge and discharge testing system
• Implemented vehicle firmware changes in C to improve test reliability
• Developed test control software and user interface using Python and Qt
• Supported vehicle battery pack capacity testing
• Used CAN bus interface and diagnostic tools, such as Vector CANape, PEAK-System PCAN-USB, Kvaser Memorator
• Developed test data analysis and visualization platform

Victoria, BC

• Implemented monitoring and alerting stack for cloud computing platforms in Python
• Developed custom data visualization application
• Developed metric collection and analysis application
• Replaced internal XML-RPC API with a REST API in Python

Victoria, BC

• Developed FPGA board support software in Python
• Implemented multi-client UDP networking benchmarking tool
• Designed web-based GUIs for adaptive optics instrument
• Developed real-time data streaming server
• Documented GUI project and used API documentation generation tools
• Wrote detailed project report and presented work to instrumentation group

Victoria, BC

Vancouver, BC