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Education

Experience

Skills

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Education

Experience

Tesla Inc. - Senior Hardware Engineer

February 2024 - Present | Palo Alto California, USA

  • Developing next-generation silicon to enhance communication with Tesla's neural networking compute cluster using the TTP protocol. Presented at Hotchips 2024 and in a public patent!
  • Engineered a high-density compute cluster for optimized data flow to DOJO, integrating custom NICs to handle specialized hardware server development over Tesla's TTP fabric.

Tesla Inc. - DOJO Hardware Engineering

July 2022 - Febuary 2024 | Palo Alto California, USA

  • Designed, managed, tested and integrated a custom NIC with PCIe, DDR and 100G QSFP for interfacing with our proprietary network protocol, TTP presented at HotChips September 2024
  • Monitored and enhanced the efficiency of a product production line through the implementation of quality improvements, in addition to constructing automated end-of-line testers to augment throughput significantly
  • Developed RTL, C++ drivers and nodejs backend to improve hardware tracking and logging across our system
  • Authored RTL to transform an I2C slave into an AXI master, enabling the onboard microcontroller to access the internal register bus and data bus, thereby expanding system capabilities.
  • Solely design and wrote automated production scale provisioning and test software for silicon
  • Successfully brought up and debugged an advanced fabric interfacing card equipped with sophisticated SERDES for ultra-high-speed 50Gb/s per channel communication as well as 100G QSFP

Tesla Inc. - DOJO Hardware Engineering Intern

August 2021 - January 2022 | Palo Alto California, USA

  • Redesigned control board for cabinet telemetry and control as well as daughter card for offloading complexity
  • Engineered a super capacitor hot swap controller, enabling seamless hardware insertion into a live cabinet, thus promoting operational convenience and safety
  • Effectively tested and integrated a large, complex system comprising intricate harnessing, control systems, and high-power delivery, ensuring overall system coherence and performance

Tesla Inc. - Autopilot Hardware Engineering Intern

January 2020 - May 2021 | Palo Alto California, USA

  • Wrote hardware validation testing suites for the team including Ethernet Switch, GPS, VRM bringup in Python to reduce repetitive tasks and build software infrastructure
  • Identified, investigated, and rectified reliability issues prevalent on the AutoPilot board in temperature-varying environments, enhancing overall system robustness
  • Performed time-domain reflectometry on SGMII and 1000Base-T1 signal paths to verify signal integrity and performed eye-diagram analysis for intersymbol distortion
  • Validated multi-phase buck converter load transient step response and open-loop phase response; meeting requirements

University of Waterloo - Undergraduate Research Assistant

April 2020 - August 2020 | Waterloo Ontario, Canada

  • Engineered a 60GHz mmWave radar system specifically for non-contact vital sign detection, pushing the boundaries of health technology
  • Devised a sophisticated algorithm utilizing Matlab, wavelet transformation, and auto-correlation, proficient in detecting breath rates at distances of up to 10 meters, showcasing innovation in remote vital sign detection
  • Established a client-server architecture in Python and C++, designed to seamlessly offload processing in real-time, thereby enhancing system performance and efficiency

Kazoo Technology - Electronics Designer and Innovator Intern

August 2019 - April 2020 | Hong Kong, Hong Kong

  • Leveraged fundamental engineering principles and the scientific method to reverse engineer capacitive touchscreen stylus hardware. Successfully devised and validated theories through comprehensive simulations, verified by the construction of a hardware prototype
  • Reversed engineered capacitive touch screen stylus hardware to adapt technology to special usecase
  • Designed both discrete and integrated analog amplifiers as well as digitally controlled filters, leveraging LTSpice simulations and progressing to building and testing physical prototypes.
  • Design and packaged manufacturable products for consumer use
  • Designed 200MSP/s ADC with FPGA dev-board in Altium including touch screen protocol detection and spoofing for touch screen stylus testing

AR Modular RF - Radio Frequency Hardware Engineering Intern

January 2019 - April 2019 | Seattle Washington, USA

  • Developed automated RF amplifier testing suites to improve testing time efficiency using LabView and Python
  • Implemented systems to flash unique MAC addresses to IP enabled products
  • Characterized RF products to convey technical specs and information to the marketing department and datasheets

Evertz Microsystems - Systems Engineering Intern

May 2018 - August 2018 | Burlington Ontario, Canada

  • Executed comprehensive research and deployed strategies for impedance and phase matching of 25G QSFP differential pairs, significantly enhancing signal integrity
  • Successfully captured schematics for an Ethernet switch encompassing RGMII, 1000BTX, and SGMII, including the incorporation of magnetics and impedance matching for optimal performance
  • Engineered specialized firmware to identify incoming video encryption streams, further enhancing user interaction through the development of a UI overlay system for seamless user feedback

Evertz Microsystems - Systems Engineering Intern

September 2017 - December 2017 | Burlington Ontario, Canada

  • Developed FPGA firmware for capturing and replaying 10GB/s fiber optic layer 2 ethernet packets with realtime hardware timestamping
  • Designed and implemented a DDR3 circular buffering system, implemented pre-fetching and caching, while also supporting DMA to DDR3, allowing generation of Wireshark files from Ethernet captured frames
  • Troubleshot hardware short-circuits on high-density PCBs and spearheaded the design of a more robust active fusing system to safeguard boards against potential damage

Dozr - Fullstack Software Engineering

January 2017 - April 2017 | Kitchener Ontario, Canada

  • Engineered React components to enhance the functionality of our internal tooling website
  • Pioneered the creation of automated web crawlers, designed to extract user data from websites and automatically update the database, thereby enhancing accuracy and efficiency

Skills

Note: I think these sections are silly, but everyone seems to have one. Here is a *mostly* honest overview of my skills.

Altium Designer
5 / 5
Python
5 / 5
Ansys HFSS
4 / 5
LTSpice
4 / 5
Vivado
4 / 5
JavaScript
4 / 5
Solidity
4 / 5
TypeScript
4 / 5
VHDL
4 / 5
Verilog
4 / 5
Quartus
3 / 5
Bash
3 / 5
C
3 / 5
C++
3 / 5
Java
3 / 5
LabView
3 / 5
MatLab
3 / 5
PHP
2 / 5

Selected Courses

References are available upon request