Aaron Reed
Intern at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAaron Reed is a software engineer with nine years of multidisciplinary experience building low-level hardware interfaces, AI-driven tools, and production-grade web testing infrastructure. Currently an intern at SLAC, he is designing a multimodal RAG system on Kubernetes that bridges two decades of physics logbooks with modern LLMs and vector databases, while previously fine-tuning LLMs for STEM tasks at Outlier. His hands-on background spans embedded systems — including porting and refactoring quadruped robot control code to support ODrive motors and inverse kinematics — to automated QA for Ethereum-enabled web apps. Comfortable moving between hardware, firmware, and cloud-native microservices, he pairs rigorous Stanford engineering training with a practical knack for translating research problems into reproducible prototypes.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Stanford University
Github Skills (10)
controls10
robotics10
controller10
python10
interfacing10
hardware-interface10
kinematics9
sys9
embedded9
multithreading7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
stanfordroboticsclub/StanfordQuadruped
Jan 2020 - Oct 2020
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:17 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
Contributions summary:Aaron's commits primarily focus on porting and modifying code from a similar quadruped robot (Pupper) to the "Woofer" project. Their work includes refactoring the hardware interface, incorporating the ODrive motor controllers, and implementing inverse kinematics calculations. This transition involved adapting existing configuration files, adjusting for different hardware, and multithreading the discovery process for motor controllers, indicating a focus on low-level control and hardware integration. These changes suggest the user is likely involved in the low-level control and hardware interfacing aspect of the project.
CrazyAZ/botw-routes
Dec 2022 - Sep 2024
Collection of Piston TM Routes
Contributions:9 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 9 months
pistonroutes
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