Specialties: C/C++, System Software, Protobuf + gRPC, Python, Bash, CAN/CANOpen, Bazel, Atmel/Microchip firmware, MIPS/Freescale Assembly, I2C, SPI, UART, TCP/IP Stack (L2/L3, wired, wireless, mesh), SDN, Make, VBA, Perl, Git, Jenkins, Docker, Microcontrollers

2012 — NowGoogleSenior Software Engineer

2012 — Now

Mountain View, CA

Pixel Buds (08/2022 - Current):

BLE, platform, bringup, audio, TL/TLM of team of ~7. Mostly C/C++ and Python.

Platforms NetInfra (11/2020 - 08/2022):

Switch stack software, software releases, secondary bootloader, failure analysis. C/C++, Python, Shell, and some SQL.

Google Life Sciences / Verily Life Sciences (09/2016 - 11/2020):

See separate section for this work.

Google Fiber (04/2016 - 09/2016):

Wireless L2 point-to-point, on-device health checks. C++ and Lua.

Cell Towers in the Sky (02/2015 - 04/2016):

Antenna pointing, motor controllers, CAN/CANOpen and wrote our own CANOpen stack. C++ and Python.

Platforms Networking (06/2012 - 02/2015):

Primarily worked on the embedded stack software (L2/L3) for several network switch hardware platforms which power Google's datacenters using software defined networking. Also worked on network switch debugging tools, and network fabric design tools. Mostly worked in C++ and Python.

2016 — 2020Verily Life SciencesSenior Software Engineer

2016 — 2020

Mountain View, California, United States

Verily Surgical (03/2020 - 11/2020):

Tech lead for team of ~4, realtime on-device machine learning. Mostly Python/Docker.

Verb Surgical (09/2016 - 03/2020):

Tech lead for team of ~7, connectivity and data management, top 5 code committer and reviewer in 400+ person company, author of several company-wide influential software engineering “Best Practices” guides.

Surgical robots, system software, cloud connectivity, process management, EHR integration with HL7, "go-to" person for robot debugging. Mostly C++.

One patent awarded.

2009 — 2012University of California, Santa CruzTeaching Assistant

2009 — 2012

Santa Cruz, California, United States

Created grade retrieval/plotting class website, designed new assignments and updated old assignments, created cheat-detection software, held lab sections with 25-75 at a time, graded assignments, proctored exams, solved student problems/meltdowns via email.

2011 — 2011GoogleSoftware Engineering Intern

2011 — 2011

Mountain View, California, United States

Project involved modifying lower layers of network stack to run on a new evaluation platform, worked with software and hardware engineers as well as vendor field application engineers to resolve issues with changes between chip versions, relied on understanding existing codebase, chip datasheets, and network linecard schematic to perform port.

2010 — 2010iControl NetworksSoftware Engineering Intern

2010 — 2010

Palo Alto, California, United States

Atmel AVR development with FreeRTOS, wrote driver and interface software for SPI, I2C, and I2S buses, performed Wifi repeater testing and analysis, got sunburned in the process, wrote Perl scripts, shell scripts, and Windows batch files, and researched modifying OpenWRT Make build environment.

Education

University of California, Santa Cruz

Masters

California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo

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Education

Masters

Bachelor's degree