MEng Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (2017-2018)

GPA: 3.8 (equivalent to first class honours)

Capstone project: Built a self-balancing bicycle in a team of three. Developed a business model, performed theoretical control theory calculations (controllability, stability), and built electronics.

Modules: robotics, power electronics, linear and nonlinear control theory, accounting and finance, engineering leadership (communication, marketing, product management)

BSc. (Hons.) Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (2012-2016)

GPA: 3.8 (equivalent to first class honours)

Studied basic fundamentals of EECS including data structures, computer architecture, microelectronic circuits, and linear systems. Chose additional modules to include all of the theory needed to design computers, starting from semiconductor fabrication and digital design, to operating systems and compilers, and finally applications such as machine learning and communication systems.

Senior Technical Security Engineer, Yahoo! (2018-2022)

• Key member of Paranoids Red Team, simulating external attackers and proactively discovering and fixing security vulnerabilities throughout the company
• Worked with colleagues to push for systemic “root-cause” improvements, such as password managers, code secrets management, and revamped compliance training
• Designed an electronic conference badge to promote the Paranoids cybersecurity team
  • Released badge design as open-source
  • Presented at Hackaday Superconference 2022

Software Engineering Intern, Broadcom (2015)

• Designed and built a tool and framework in Python to debug network switch programming
• Rewrote board supervisor microcontroller firmware for demonstrating switch capabilities

Software Engineering Intern, National Instruments (2014)

• Added performance regression testing to device driver build/test pipeline, utilizing CPU performance counters

Software Engineering Intern, Google (2013)

• Implemented unreleased features for Google Search

Asahi Linux Development

• Reverse-engineering Apple Silicon hardware in order to develop open-source Linux drivers
• Wrote proof-of-concept drivers for the Bluetooth, ProRes accelerator, JPEG accelerator, and IOMMU hardware
• Partial reverse engineering of the image scaler and video decoder hardware

Open-source electronics hardware

• Starting to build a community and accessible English development resources around microcontrollers from Asian vendors
• Patches to LLVM to improve RISC-V microcontroller support
• Wrote a USB UF2 bootloader for WCH CH32V parts to enable simple firmware loading without requiring debugging hardware

Programmable logic reverse-engineering

• Reverse-engineered the configuration bitstream for Intel/Altera MAX V CPLDs, so that open-source compilers can be written
• Completed the reverse-engineering of AMD/Xilinx CoolRunner-II CPLDs