Andre Baptista
Ast. Team Lead - Optical Engineer at SL America Corporation
Auburn Hills, Michigan, United States
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Top SchoolAndre Baptista is an optical and electronics engineer with nine years of automotive lighting experience, now serving as Assistant Team Lead at SL America after leading NAFTA optical engineering at Marelli. He combines hands-on hardware development, optical system design, photorealistic rendering and real-photo simulation for headlamps and rear lamps, with practical experience in homologation, testing and on-road night evaluations. Comfortable across tools like CATIA V5, Xcal, Realflex and Maxwell, he also brings electronics and project coordination expertise from PCB design to EMC and supplier quality. A longtime hobbyist full-stack and retro-dev enthusiast, he has built homebrew CPUs and worked with C#, MEAN stack and embedded platforms such as Arduino and MSX, which gives him an unusual cross-domain perspective on optics, firmware and tooling. Known for turning aesthetic concepts into validated, manufacturable lighting systems, he excels at customer-facing roles and root-cause resolution across NAFTA programs. Based in Auburn Hills, Michigan, he blends international program leadership with a pragmatic maker’s curiosity.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Electromechanical Technical Degree, Electromechanical Technical Degree at Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica de Minas GeraisB.S. Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering Degree, B.S. Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering Degree at PUC Minas
Portuguese, English, German, Spanish
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Github Skills (41)
scroll10
parallax10
retrocomputing9
zx-spectrum9
player9
8-bit8
mongodb8
emulator-programming8
nes-emulator8
amiga8
pixel8
apple28
nodejs8
nintendo-ds8
assembly7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
albs-br/pacific
Jun 2020 - Aug 2020
Contributions:58 commits, 52 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
albs-br/msx-wings
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:281 commits, 461 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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