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Costa Mesa, Ca, Us

Costa Mesa, Ca, Us

Stockholm, Se

Writing firmware for IoT locks based on the Zephyr OS project.

- Re-architected edge platform logging to enhance error recovery and performance guarantees, unification of high SLOC codebases, and identification of ~10K security holes, edge cases, and possible corruption vectors.- Spearheaded epoch-based MR process and increased automation of testing infrastructure through unit testing, and VM-based integration testing, enabling 90% reduction in MR sizes and increasing average delivery speed.- Campaigned for the redesign of the edge team’s build system with a non-recursive Makefile-based process, enabling a 200x increase in build speed.- Develop x86_64 drivers for UEFI chainloading of Swoop OS, ethernet NICs, virtual memory management, and secure boot.

Waynesboro, Virginia, Us

- Design low-jitter, hard real-time kernel modules (200 - 500 Hz) for image processing, camera sampling on SMP systems running on Wing delivery drones fielding RTEMS, FreeRTOS and Linux.- Develop device and BSP abstractions in Google-style C++ for STM32 platforms, employing electrical test equipment. Also supervised board bring-up and DVT.- Bolstered company CI by extending GoogleTest, clang-format, and pre-commit on GitLab pipelines, increasing code coverage by 30% and reducing ‘bad commit’ incidence rate by 10%.

San Antonio, Tx, Us

- Pioneered $100K internal research proposal evaluating seL4 as an ARINC653 separation kernel in the CubeSat space.- Fashioned RTEMS kernel-mode error correction and failure recovery drivers for $200M radiation-tolerant NASA PUNCHsatellite contract.- Developed GitLab process flow for team and CI infrastructure supporting all layers of testing.

Charlottesville, Va, Us

- Directed team of five electrical engineers to develop next-gen energy harvesting proposal for NASA.- Designed remote operated, optically powered autonomous rover PCB to power lunar vehicles on long-term missions.- Supported the design of the control systems involved in acquiring an optical 'power lock'.

Charlottesville, Va, Us

- Supported the Data Science department’s bring-up of a city-wide LoRaWAN network to characterize metrics indicative of ‘environmental racism’- Designed ARM Cortex M0-powered sensor fusion PCB incorporating LoRa transceiver and battery-management system achieving weeks of runtime at 1W

Marina Del Rey, California, Us

- Built first working prototype of nuclear 50 nW glucose monitoring analog device.- Designed 4-layer PCB with mentor integrating power regulation and delivery systems, nuclear battery, and characterized electrical performance of system.