# Avery C.

> FDE at Nexxa.ai  | UWaterloo Eng 24’ | Prev @ Co-founder of Symphonic Labs, Tesla, SBX Robotics

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/averyc

## Work Experience
### Forward Deployed Engineer @ Nexxa.ai
Jan 2026 – Present | Sunnyvale, California, United States

### Co-Founder @ Symphonic Labs
Jan 2023 – Jan 2026 | San Francisco, California, United States

### Founder Fellow @ South Park Commons
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco, California, United States

### Co-Founder @ WATOLINK
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

### Software Engineering Intern @ Versa Networks
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Santa Clara County, California, United States

### Software Engineering Intern @ SBX Robotics
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Toronto, Ontario, Canada

### Algorithms / Machine Learning Engineering Intern @ Enlighted Inc
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022

### Telemetry/CAN Interface Manager @ WATonomous
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
• Led a team of 4 people to develop the telemetry system and CAN interface to monitor and control a self-driving Chevrolet Bolt EV for the SAE Autodrive Challenge.
• Designed the software architecture to facilitate communication between the ROS network and the CAN network, allowing for messages to be packed and sent to the vehicle for autonomous control.
• Refactored Python code to follow OOP principles, improving the readability and reusability of the software.

### Display Engineering Intern @ Tesla
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Palo Alto, California, United States
• Developed the calibration sequence for a 3-axis display testing robot which includes performing coordinate transformations to align the robot with the display and using potential field navigation with gradient descent to locate points on a 2D plane.
• Designed a GUI with PyQt5 to interface with the display testing robot, utilizing multi-threading to handle events, visualize the robot's movement, and display test results using Matplotlib.

### Firmware Lead @ Midnight Sun Solar Rayce Car Team
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
• Lead development of CAN Explorer project to create a CAN monitor to visualize and log CAN data coming from the solar car.

### Firmware Developer @ Midnight Sun Solar Rayce Car Team
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Waterloo, Ontario
• Designed the telemetry system with Python to read CAN messages, store data in DynamoDB, and send these messages to the cloud using MQTT through WiFi and LTE. 
• Created the backend for the driver display that receives CAN messages through WebSockets and displays data, such as speed, on the vehicle dashboard. Programmed firmware in C on an STM32 for the steering stalk, allowing the user to control features such as the cruise control and high beams. 
• Developed a driver to monitor the temperature of the battery management system (BMS) of the solar car

### Computer Vision Undergraduate Research Assistant @ Vision and Image Processing Group
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
• Implemented Mask-RCNN, Faster-RCNN, and RetinaNET with Detectron2 and PyTorch in AWS Sagemaker to detect Northern Leaf Blight disease in maize, achieving an accuracy of 94.6% in detecting diseased plants.
• Created a Python script to compute the average precision and recall from each image and output a PDF with a side-by-side comparison of the ground truth versus the predicted bounding boxes using OpenCV.

### Firmware Developer Intern @ Ford Motor Company
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
• Implemented package versioning and signing, using C, for secure over-the-air firmware updates to the bootloader of the telematics control unit for Ford vehicles.
• Developed Bash scripts to manage access to bootloader partitions and file systems for different processes, ensuring secure access to data within the partitions.

### Automotive R&D Intern @ GEOTAB
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
• Analyzed vehicle data from customers using Google BigQuery (SQL) and prepared dashboards to display visualizations, such as geographic heatmaps, with Python using libraries such as Matplotlib, NumPy, and Pandas.
• Designed a PCB used for testing keyless vehicle technology with Altium and created the schematic, PCB layout, BOM, and Gerber files for manufacturing.

### Program Instructor @ City of Markham
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Markham, Ontario
Taught the fundamentals of Python such as variables, conditionals, loops, and about concepts such as event-driven programming to young children from the ages of 6-13

### Lifeguard @ City of Markham
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Markham, Ontario
Provided excellent customer service and ensured the safety of patrons in the pool at all times. Applied first aid and basic life support to patrons as needed.


## Education
### Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc in Mechatronics Engineering, Artificial Intelligence Option
University of Waterloo

### Engineering
National University of Singapore


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/averychiu

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Last updated: 2026-03-29