Alyssa Rosenzweig
Concord, New Hampshire, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlyssa Rosenzweig is a technically deep software engineer and practicing leader with 11 years of experience specializing in low-level systems, embedded firmware, and cross-disciplinary collaboration. She thrives on complex, ambiguous challenges and excels at uniting engineering, design, product, legal, and business perspectives to deliver robust systems and teams. Her open-source contributions to high-profile projects like AsahiLinux/m1n1 and Raspberry Pi bootloader work demonstrate hands-on expertise in Apple Silicon and VPU/UART initialization, reflecting a rare fluency with hardware protocols and boot processes. Trained in computer and cognitive science with advanced study in HCI and ubiquitous computing, she brings both human-centered thinking and hardcore systems skills to architecture and product decisions. Energetic when the odds are stacked against her, she seeks roles with talented teams whose values match her high standards for technical innovation and execution.
11 years of coding experience
Spanish culture history literature music and language, Spanish culture history literature music and language at St. Louis University - MadridMSc Computer Science Human-Computer Interaction; Ubiquitous Computing, MSc Computer Science Human-Computer Interaction; Ubiquitous Computing at University of TorontoSeaholm High SchoolBAS BA Computer and Cognitive Science Psychology, BAS BA Computer and Cognitive Science Psychology at University of Pennsylvania
Spanish
Github Skills (21)
bootloader10
assembly10
python10
apple-silicon10
c1110
c1710
u-boot10
sys10
assembler10
boot10
loader10
arm10
embedded10
raspberry-pi10
reverse-engineering10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
christinaa/rpi-open-firmware
Dec 2016 - Apr 2017
Open source VPU side bootloader for Raspberry Pi.
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:55 commits, 8 PRs, 45 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Alyssa primarily focused on developing a bootloader for the Raspberry Pi, as indicated by the repository description. Their contributions involved low-level programming, including dropping permissions, hacking on the loader, and integrating UART0 for communication. They implemented and debugged core functionalities related to initializing and controlling hardware components of the Raspberry Pi, such as the UART and SDRAM.
raspberry-pivpuraspberryraspberrypibootloader
AsahiLinux/m1n1
Jun 2021 - Oct 2021
A bootloader and experimentation playground for Apple Silicon
Role in this project:Embedded Systems Engineer
Embedded Systems EngineerContributions:5 commits, 4 PRs, 11 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Alyssa Rosenzweig contributed to the bootloader and experimentation playground for Apple Silicon, m1n1. Their work focused on low-level system interactions, including decoding DCP messages, implementing SMC client functionality for radio enablement, and prettyfying boot argument display. The commits show a deep understanding of the hardware and its communication protocols.
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