Kevin C. Email & Phone Number

Sacramento, Ca, Us

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

Oakland, California, Us

I worked on improving the day-to-day experience of Square point-of-sale hardware device firmware and software developers with a focus on the experience of setting up and maintaining the development environments used to work on these projects.

Santa Clara, California, Us

• Developed integration tests, pytest plugins, and tool scripts in Python to validate Optane solidstate drive (SSD) firmware• Created mypy plugin to type check ctypes structs and unions• Enabled automated protection from Python 3 compatibility regressions in continuous integration (CI) for a Python 2 code base that was incrementally updated to support Python 3

Santa Clara, California, Us

• Implemented front-end and back-end features for internal graphics driver test automation framework written in Python, Go, and Angular (JavaScript/TypeScript)• Served as Agile scrum master including leading sprint retrospectives, sprint planning meetings,daily stand-ups, and major incident post-mortem meetings• Provided customer support to internal engineering teams

Santa Clara, California, Us

• Wrote graphics, UI, and application platform firmware in C for the Vaunt smart glasses (https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/5/16966530/intel-vaunt-smart-glasses-announced-ar-video)• Built up firmware unit test infrastructure based on Criterion unit testing framework• Setup developer and continuous integration environment containers using Vagrant• Wrote tools in Python to automate common tasks and increase developer productivity• Transitioned five large codebases to a monorepo while preserving git commit history

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

• Served as Technical Lead of the Watch User Experience team during development of the Pebble Time Round, Pebble 2, and Pebble Time 2 smart watches• Implemented user interfaces, animations, applications, and services in C for all Pebble watches• Wrote test automation and tool scripts in Python• Served as Firmware Internationalization Lead for several firmware releases by coordinating translation efforts, fixing copy errors, and generating firmware language packs• Ported GameBoy emulators to run on Pebble watches at an internal hackathon• Supervised college interns

Stanford, Ca, Us

• Developed open-source iPhone app for Stanford’s Marguerite shuttle bus system in Objective-C and Swift which became Stanford’s official shuttle bus app and was downloaded over 10,000 times

Hampton, Virginia, Us

• Programmed avionics using the VxWorks 653 real-time operating system• Wrote runtime verification monitors in Haskell using a domain specific language called Copilot (http://leepike.github.com/Copilot/)• Wrote technical documentation for an avionics testbed• Contributed software patches to BeRTOS, an open-source real-time operating system (http://bertos.org)• Mentored a high school student

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

• Instructed students in microcontrollers lab• Assisted the professor with grading and the creation of assignments

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

• Directly managed six computer technicians• Interviewed applicants and hired new employees• Developed and executed training program for new workers• Scheduled help desk hours for each employee• Submitted weekly timesheets for payroll• Serviced students’ computers (Internet setup, virus removal, data recovery, etc.)• Maintained the dorm building’s computer lab for cleanliness and printer paper/toner

Mountain View, Ca, Us

• Designed electronics, developed custom kernel, and wrote applications for an exciting new consumer/merchant information exchange product• Supervised PCB fabrication/manufacturing process• Assisted in mechanical/product development

• Designed a platform, AutoPlug, that adds wireless, plug-n-play hardware/software functionality to automobiles using Beagleboard (previously GumStix) and XMPP• Developed an AutoPlug API for third party developers• Created iPad app that uses AutoPlug API to monitor car status (speed, doors, fuel, etc.)• www.autoplug.org• Won 1st Prize at World Embedded Software Contest in Seoul, Korea http://www.eswcontest.com

Santa Clara, California, Us

• Assessed effectiveness of Intel’s proprietary video codecs• Created a process that Intel uses to categorize video content based on many attributes• Assembled a database for searching through a library of video content for these specific attributes

Santa Clara, California, Us

• Wrote hardware debug utility programs in Visual Basic that use Intel’s In-Target Probe• Added new features to existing hardware debug tools

Bse, Electrical Engineering

Master Of Science (M.S.), Electrical Engineering