Aaron De Los Santos
Software Engineer at Meta
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAaron De Los Santos is a software engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with nine years of hands-on experience spanning embedded systems, IoT, and software engineering. An undergrad in Computer Science at the University of Illinois, he progressed from course assistant roles across CS and ECE to internships at Google and Facebook and now works at Meta. He contributes to open-source motor control (notably enhancing the Arduino interface for the ODrive high-performance motor controller), reflecting a practical balance of hardware and software skills. Aaron is on track to graduate in December 2023 and is experienced at translating low-level device work into maintainable libraries and examples for broader developer use.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (7)
embedded10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
controller10
arduino10
sys10
moto9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
odriverobotics/ODrive
Jun 2021 - Jun 2021
High performance motor control
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 2 PRs in 6 days
Contributions summary:Aaron primarily contributed to the Arduino implementation of the ODrive motor controller. Their work involved adding a position getter function for the Arduino library, modifying the example file to demonstrate its usage. Furthermore, the user introduced an auto-generated enum header for Arduino-specific definitions, replacing a hardcoded enum, and performed minor code style and merging updates. These modifications directly relate to extending the functionality and maintainability of the Arduino interface for motor control applications.
motor-controllermotormotor-controlperformance3d-printing
aarondls/what-to-wear
Jun 2022 - Jul 2022
Contributions:17 reviews, 38 PRs, 194 pushes in 1 month
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