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Roboticist, mechanical and electrical engineer, firmware writer, EU permanent resident, and military veteran. I design, construct, program, and debug electronics, robot arms, and mobile robots⁠ plus studied haptics, entrepreneurship, and music.C, C++, Python, SQL, PRACTICE (TRACE32), Matlab, Solidworks, OpenSCAD, EAGLE, KiCad, SPICE, HTML5/CSS/JSMy contributions include:• extending hardware debugger, profiling, and flash support for modern Arm chipsets/boards; creating ca. 200 demo scripts and 60+ flash binaries for Ambiq, Dialog, GigaDevice, Infineon, LX Semicon, Maxim, Microchip, Nordic, NXP, Nuvoton, Renesas, and ST• designing and/or 3D printing/laser cutting 1000+ unique parts for scientific research projects. Tool experience: ULS, Markforged/eiger.io, Carbon, Stratasys Fortus/uPrint, ProJet MJP 5600, Formlabs SLA, Makerbot, Prusa• laying out, fabricating, and assembling PCBs (FR4 & flexible, thru-hole & SMT) using LPKF and Nano Dimension tools; installing and maintaining PCB lab equipment; operating and training on PCB tools: mill, laser cutter, galvanic PTH tank, solder resist templates, reflow oven, soldering stations, etc.• creating a high-precision Cartesian gantry (<0.1mm tolerance across its 500mm span; XXYZθ layout) with a rotating end effector used for machine learning of magnetic micro-robot locomotion• writing sensor (IMU, pressure, temperature, gas, light) and actuator (BLDC, Dynamixel) firmware for various communication interfaces (I2C, SPI, UART, CAN)• designing/fabricating a low-profile, waterproof data logger with 17 waterproof, coin-sized, stick-on sensors, built fully in-house; used to analyze motions of complex underwater robotic and biological systems• publishing a paper about liquid metal angle sensors in IEEE RoboSoft• redesigning the EM layout of a custom octocopter used for high-speed wild animal motion capture• publishing open-source tools for Linux audio, bargain hunting, and legacy DOS/Windows gaming• academic:‌ ◦ a fleet of hockey robots‌ ◦ fully virtual haptic (touch) 3d maze‌ ◦ gesture-driven haptic ball: relays sensor data to an array of skin-mounted buzzers‌ ◦ EEG/ECoG/Utah Array ML classifier, for decoding finger movements from brain waves‌ ◦ CV feature detection/seamless face morphing/swapping‌ ◦ Roomba "puppy" that follows objects via OpenCV‌ ◦ IoT (remote + timer) dog feeder‌ ◦ PUMA 260 (robot arm) light paintings‌ ◦ dicycle inverted pendulum‌ ◦ wireless MIDI speaker‌ ◦ milled microwave circuits for RF signal matching/filtering‌ ◦ motorized wheelchair mount for a pontoon boat

Listed skills include Robotics, C, C++, Matlab, and 5 others.