Alfred Kwan
Platform Software Engineering Lead
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAlfred Kwan is a platform software engineering lead with nine years of hands-on experience building and optimizing embedded and robotics systems. He blends deep expertise in assembly/C/C++ with architecture, performance profiling, and hardware/software resource planning to ship reliable, resource-constrained products. At AI Incorporated he progressed from robotics software engineer to leading platform efforts, demonstrating strength in estimation, scheduling, and cross-stage project leadership. His background spans security products and electronics design, giving him a pragmatic systems view from silicon to integration stacks and communication protocols. A self-starter and team builder, he emphasizes code quality through design reviews and prefers elegant simplicity—reflected in his GitHub credo, "The best code is no code at all." Based in Old Toronto, he pairs a B.Eng in Electrical and Computer Engineering with specialized robotics training to solve real-world automation challenges.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Robotics Software Engineer, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, Robotics Software Engineer, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering at UdacityToronto Metropolitan University
English, Chinese, Chinese
Github Skills (37)
microchip10
sdk10
mbed9
arm9
embedded9
operating-system8
kernel8
freertos8
minecraft8
asf8
atmel8
openstreetmap7
overpass-api7
driver7
debian-linux7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
alfred-ai/microchip-asf
Apr 2019 - Jan 2021
Mirror of Microchip ASF (Advanced/Atmel Software Framework), ARM only
Contributions:32 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
armatmelasfatmel-samatmel-sam-family
bObsweep/ydlidar_arduino
Sep 2019 - Oct 2019
ydlidar arduion driver
Contributions:6 PRs, 3 pushes, 4 branches in 1 month
driver
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