Andrew Rooney
AI Software Engineer at Altera
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolAndrew Rooney is an AI software engineer with 8 years of experience specializing in FPGA AI inference accelerators and nanoscale system design. He has led embedded software teams for satellite projects and moved into industry roles at Intel and Altera, where he develops RTL IP for the Intel FPGA AI Suite. Comfortable across firmware, hardware description languages, and system-level software, he bridges on-chip design with production deployment. His background includes building communication stacks for a CubeSat and contributing to an international lunar micro-rover mission, reflecting hands-on spaceflight-grade engineering rigor. Based in Toronto, he combines academic training in computer engineering with practical co-op experience at companies like Intuit and Nokia. Colleagues know him for translating complex hardware constraints into pragmatic, deployable AI acceleration solutions.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computer Engineering, Nanoscale System Design Option, Co-op, BSc, Computer Engineering, Nanoscale System Design Option, Co-op at University of Alberta
Chinese, English
Stackoverflow
169reputation
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Github Skills (35)
hardware9
satellite9
android-application9
ice8
athena8
driver8
statistics8
data-management7
behavior-driven-development6
lodash6
tcl6
merge6
gherkin6
nodejs6
angularjs6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
arrooney/libcsp
Feb 2020 - Oct 2022
Cubesat Space Protocol - A small network-layer delivery protocol designed for Cubesats
Contributions:2 PRs, 15 pushes, 10 branches in 2 years 8 months
protocoldelivery-layernetwork-layercubesatscubesat
AlbertaSat/ex2_services
Mar 2020 - Oct 2021
Satellite services to expose hardware functionality to ground user VIA the CSP network
Contributions:109 reviews, 135 commits, 54 PRs in 1 year 8 months
hardware
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