Aidan Smith
Embedded Software Developer at Geotab
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAidan Smith is an embedded software developer with 11 years of hands-on experience building real-time and safety-conscious systems across startups and hardware-focused teams. He combines deep C/C++ and microcontroller expertise with practical skills in PCB design (KiCAD), prototyping, and mechanical CAD, having designed and shipped over 350 custom keyboards and their PCBs. His background spans finance-grade secure networking for trading systems, medical device software, and DevOps for multi-cloud testing environments, demonstrating an ability to move from prototype to production. Based in Toronto, he pairs academic training in Systems and Computing with a maker’s mentality—working with machine shops and firmware on ATMega32u4, RP2040, and nRF52840—which makes him equally fluent in low-level firmware, embedded RTOS, and system integration.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Engineering Systems and Computing, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Engineering Systems and Computing at University of Guelph
Github Skills (78)
hot-reload10
firmware10
arm10
photography10
keyboard10
avr10
ai10
golang10
computer-vision10
atmel10
rp204010
google-photos10
machine-learning10
usb10
private-cloud10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Aidan-OS/Mochi40
Dec 2021 - Jun 2022
A 40% keyboard with an OLED and rotary encoder
Contributions:1 release, 28 commits, 2 PRs in 6 months
rotaryrotary-encoderencoderkeyboardoled
Aidan-OS/ForgetMeNot
Dec 2016 - Aug 2023
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 8 months
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