Michael Drobot Email & Phone Number

Oak Park, Il, Us

Ames, Ia

- Currently leading the electrical team as we test our current vehicle, Eliana, and develop our next, Andromeda. Involves managing a team of 30 people to design and test custom circuit boards, handling subteam finances, and working with other club directors to manage the team as a whole.- Designed, assembled, tested, and wrote software for Powerboard, a 300W DC-DC power regulation board responsible for powering the car's low voltage bus. Involved designing PCB trace layouts for high power and high voltage.- Designed, assembled, and tested the M5I motor interface board to translate CAN into analog signals.

North Liberty, Iowa, United States

- Developed production software in C for Kinze planters, covering every level of Kinze code: STM32, ARM bootloader, ARM Linux kernel, x86 Linux kernel, and application.- Revised frequency measurement on Kinze planter nodes using STM32, significantly increasing accuracy and resolution at higher frequencies.- Developed CAN device simulators in C for the software test team, allowing testers to validate specific faults and remove bulky test stands from the lab.

Dubuque, Iowa, United States

- Wrote and executed comprehensive test plans to verify software features across various John Deere construction vehicles.- Collaborated with another intern to create an automated on-machine hardware test system using a custom PCB design and running a custom TCP/WebSocket server to interface with the tester. Responsible for designing the mainboard and writing the software, which involved writing to GPIO and backend server development in C++ along with frontend web development using regular HTML, CSS, and JS.

Oak Park, Illinois, United States

Developed Python OpenCV- and Tesseract- based software and utilities for Tapster test automation robots.

Oak Park, Illinois, United States

Mentored a student on alto saxophone, involving designing lesson plans for every rehearsal and specially arranging music for performances.

Oak Park, Illinois, United States

Taught robot building and C++ programming in VexCode Pro V5 to students in the Julian Middle School VEX Robotics club. Also planned, set up, and ran robotics tournaments and live streams for the Chicagoland Robotics League.