Software Development Engineer
Apple Inc
April 2015 – Present
- Architect, design and implement custom frameworks to facilitate model based development and code generation
- Lead small team developing model based development pipeline as Swift frameworks which involved DSLs, IDLs, meta-modeling, code generation, as well as prototyping using a variety of open source software
- Develop pure Swift core frameworks for Mac/iOS/Linux, especially related to network communication, data marshalling, and C interoperability
Embedded Systems Engineer
Kiva Systems (Amazon Robotics)
June 2012 – March 2015
- Design, implement, test and debug embedded software for Kiva Systems autonomous mobile robots.
- Develop application and network software for embedded Linux (C, GNU toolchain, Yocto, POSIX sockets, Python, Bash) as well as bare-metal applications for ARM Cortex-M chips and other devices
- Lead developer for Kiva’s Drive Unit Safety Controller (Kiva’s autonomous robot IEC 61508 safety monitor)
- Performed testing, code coverage and static analysis using GoogleMock, GoogleTest, Gcov and Cppcheck
- Architect and lead developer of Kiva’s autonomous robot fleet-level operation data collection process/program
- Designed system where data is autonomously collected from thousands of widely distributed robots into an analytics database for use in performance monitoring, design verification and fault detection.
- Develop code and documentation to improve system manufacturability and autonomous testability
- Conducted research regarding aggregate residential air conditioning demand response and home energy control
- Coded and designed embedded software modules to validate machine control hardware for next generation top-loading washing machines, among other testing, prototyping and documentation projects.
Education
M.Eng in Electrical Engineering, 4.0 GPA — May 2012
B.S. in Electrical Engineering, 4.0 GPA — August 2011
J.B. Speed School of Engineering – University of Louisville, Louisville, KY
Certificates
- Machine Learning by Stanford University on Coursera. Certificate earned on November 22, 2015
- Robotics, a 6-course specialization by University of Pennsylvania on Coursera. Specialization Certificate earned on August 8, 2016
- Robotics: Aerial Robotics by University of Pennsylvania on Coursera. Certificate earned on February 6, 2016
- Robotics: Computational Motion Planning by University of Pennsylvania on Coursera. Certificate earned on February 24, 2016
- Robotics: Mobility by University of Pennsylvania on Coursera. Certificate earned on April 4, 2016
- Robotics: Perception by University of Pennsylvania on Coursera. Certificate earned on May 16, 2016
- Robotics: Estimation and Learning by University of Pennsylvania on Coursera. Certificate earned on June 12, 2016
- Robotics: Capstone by University of Pennsylvania on Coursera. Certificate earned on August 8, 2016
Other Experience
NASA University Student Launch Initiative
July 2011 – April 2012
- Led electronics and payload team in development of custom electronics (PCBs, sensors, harnesses, communication) and embedded software for the payload of the University of Louisville’s high power competition rocket (5th out of 42 finish in inaugural year competition)
Capstone Design in Electrical and Computer Engineering
January 2011 – May 2011
University of Louisville, Louisville and Lexmark Inc.
- Lead five member ME and EE cross disciplinary senior design team
- Researched, designed, fabricated and tested a low-cost opto-reflective shaft encoder for brushed DC motors
Undergraduate Researcher in Computer Vision and Image Processing Lab January 2010 – May 2011
University of Louisville, Computer Vision & Image Processing Lab, Louisville, KY
- Lead project to refurbish and restore both hardware and software in an out-of-use lab robot (ATRV mini)
- Initiated integration of computer vision software package (OpenCV) with the robot system
Hacking at Home
2008 – Present
- Developing Arduino, Raspberry Pi and hardware only based autonomous mobile robots
- Interfacing small LCD and VFD displays with battery and solar powered projects and homemade robots
- Teaching myself Free RTOS, XBee, Bluetooth, Android, 3-D modeling (Sketchup), etc. all for fun
Awards and Honors
- Lewis S. Streng Award for Master of Engineering Honor Graduate 2012
- Samuel T. Fife Award for Outstanding Master of Engineering Graduate in Electrical Engineering 2012
- University of Louisville IEEE Outstanding Student Award 2012
- Robert Craig Ernst Scholarship Award for Highest Honors Bachelor of Science, J.B. Speed School Spring 2011
- Samuel T. Fife Scholarship Award, EE department J.B. Speed School Spring 2010
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