Max Kross Email & Phone Number

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

I'm the lead firmware engineer on our hardware design team. I led the firmware development of a battery management system that would extend product battery life on a secondary bare-metal MCU. I've reviewed countless datasheets and helped inform decisions on hardware architecture to deliver the best outcomes to our clients. I've developed drivers and HALs for I2c, UART, and SPI peripherals that were managed on TIRTOS and FreeRTOS platforms. I've led the design of multiple bootloaders that have included CRC checks for verification before boot. I created a UART layer protocol that allowed our OS engineers to send events to our MCU. Recently I also deployed an open source PyTorch YoloV5 object detection model on a Nvidia Jetson Docker Image to demonstrate proof-of-concept eye tracking capabilities.

Dallas, Tx, Us

I began working full time in Texas Instruments' rotation program in September 2019. In my first rotation I increased customer transfer speeds by adding a DMA transfer functionality feature to SPI and UART protocol examples for an EVM. In my second rotation I have so far expanded TI's device example portfolio by porting a 4-wire touchscreen demo that leverages open source graphics library lvgl, GPIO, and ADC from one TI family of chips to another. I additionally improved our customer out of the box experience by creating python scripts to automate formatting driver demos and documentation for placement on TI Resource Explorer.

Columbus, Ohio, Us

I became a Graduate Teaching Associate in 2017 as I pursued my Master's degree. I was in charge of two lab sections where I lead students through explorations in a variety of hands-on engineering labs. I was also in charge of a teaching team who assisted in grading the student's technical writing skills.I also became the embedded software design lead where I helped oversee undergraduate teaching assistant projects such as enhancing our XBEE wireless range on our robot controllers and capabilities such as loading a bootloader on to the controllers via SD card.

Dallas, Tx, Us

In my third and final internship with Texas Instruments I created scripts for TI’s internal testing platform that flashed various hardware platforms and tested the performance of software running on those platforms. Additionally I implemented a radar test setup that automatically rotated a platform that held various radar boards so that their activation could be automated in nightly builds.

Dallas, Tx, Us

In my second internship role with Texas Instruments I worked on the BLE team in San Diego. That summer I designed and implemented an ECC SHA-256 security protocol for BLE OAD on TI’s CC2640R2F board to a given specification. I also created a python tool that signed binary images, and added an embedded C solution to the board to verify on-chip and off-chip flash images.

Columbus, Ohio, Us

I was an undergraduate teaching assistant from 2014-2017. In this role I taught students MATLAB, C and C++, engineering graphics, technical writing skills, and general problem solving skills.Additionally, I collaborated with other teaching assistants to ideate, design, and create a new course for student's robots to complete each year. I was a secondary lead on the micro-controller software design where I implemented I2C software libraries on a Freescale K60 processor that enabled data to be read from an accelerometer. I also adapted SPI software libraries from other processors to work for a touchscreen library on a Freescale K60 processor.

Dallas, Tx, Us

In my first internship with Texas Instruments I planned, designed, and implemented a C++ program to optimize the WEBENCH waveform generation process. This consisted of creating a basic parser for configuration files, interfacing with an API in order to read data, and creating multiple classes in order to store and manipulate data.

Master'S Degree, Computer Science And Engineering

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science And Engineering