# Pooya Merat

> Embedded / Firmware Engineer · Wearables

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/pooya

Software engineer with 10+ years of R&D experience in embedded systems, wearables, IoT, robotics, and cloud.

## Work Experience
### Senior Firmware Engineer @ Meta
Jan 2025 – Present | United States

### Software Engineer @ Amazon
Jan 2022 – Present | United States

### Software Engineer @ Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Canada

### Technical Consultant @ Orka Water
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Canada
Consulted as sole embedded engineer for a touch-less pay-per-use water-fountain POC: designed STM32-based control board, capacitive-touch user interface, and Android BLE companion app demonstrated to investors.

### Co-Founder @ Zeno Labz
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Canada

### Embedded Systems and Software Lead @ HaiLa
Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | Canada
First hire; owned access-point firmware for zero-power Wi-Fi backscatter tags that secured a $5M Series A, and led MAC-layer R&D-evaluated IEEE 802.11 frame timings, built a replay-based network simulator, and proposed proprietary medium-access schemes.

### Research Assistant @ McGill University
Jan 2014 – Jan 2020 | Canada
- Designed and developed an inertial-based wireless wearable system for lower‑body motion capture: custom ATxmega board, DMA‑driven 1 kHz sensor‑acquisition pipeline that logs to SD card and streams the same data over BLE for real‑time processing.
- Implemented C++ firmware with an error-state Kalman filter fusing 1 kHz IMU and ToF distance sensors; achieved ±5 mm RMS foot-clearance accuracy and built companion dashboards in C# and Android.

### Software Consultant and Developer @ Centre universitaire de santé McGill | McGill University Health Centre
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Canada
Was the sole software engineer behind a simulation software (C# front-end and C++ backend on GPU) designed to simulate a rare eye disease. Work published as a Nature Scientific Reports paper.

### Software/Hardware Advisor @ MY01
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Canada
Set up an initial infrastructure for the first POC and guided the early junior employees, supporting raising the seed round of $350K.

### Software Developer @ Greybox Solutions
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Canada
Provided proof-of-concept algorithms based on inertial sensors for a smart-insole, supporting a $600K grant win.

### Research Assistant @ Concordia University
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | Canada
Created a simulation software for singularity analysis and workspace determination of a proprietary parallel reconfigurable space robotic arm, using Monte Carlo simulation.

### Teaching Assistant @ Concordia University
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Canada
- Programming in C++ (MECH215)
- MCU Lab (MECH471)


## Education
### Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering - Wearable Systems
McGill University

### Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Mechatronics, Robotics and Automation Engineering
Concordia University

### Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Biomedical Engineering (Biomechanics)
Amirkabir University of Technology - Tehran Polytechnic


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/pooyamerat
- Website: https://github.com/p8me

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Last updated: 2026-04-01